03.08.2011                      03.Aw-Elul, 5771

Gesund essen:

Home is where the healthy meal is

Researchers find that people tend to eat more nutritious meals at home than when they eat out.

Even as the idea of a traditional family meal around the table at home is on the decline, researchers have found that people tend to eat more nutritious meals at home than when they eat out.
"Over the course of evolution in a world of food scarcity, humans and animals alike have been biologically programmed to elicit more powerful food reward responses to high-caloric foods" than to less-fattening fare, the study published in the July issue of the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition notes….