You make healthy food choices and craft a well-designed workout plan, but you still gain weight.? Have you ever wondered why?? Your efforts to eat well and exercise might be the very things that are causing weight gain.
3 Healthy Things That May Cause Weight Gain
- Organic foods. Organic foods aren't necessarily lower in calories than conventional foods, but some people think they are.? Researchers at the University of Michigan found this to be the case, even when study participants could easily read the nutritional facts label that showed identical calorie counts for an organic and conventional food.
In a related study, the researchers also found that dieters used the fact that they had eaten an organic treat (rather than a conventional treat) as justification for skipping exercise sessions.? Quick fix? Read nutrition facts labels, not product labels. - Thinking about exercise. In a research study published in Appetite magazine, researchers found that people serve themselves more snacks when they are thinking about exercise.? And calorie consumption increased even more when the exercise they were thinking about was perceived to be hard work rather than fun. Quick fix? Don't think about exercise, just do it.
- Health Food. Researchers at the University of Toronto studied food perception and snack habits. They found that snackers ate 35% more food when they believed that the food was healthy.? This led them to wonder if beliefs about the healthiness of foods may have a significant impact on food intake and weight gain in the general public.? Quick fix? Eat healthy food, but eat in moderation.
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