According to new research, there’s a new weight loss tool in town: Behold the mighty power of your everyday orange!
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Staying away from sweet treats is a tough thing to do. Luckily, science may have a solution to this: Just smelling an orange could help your diet along.
Researchers at the Society for the Study of Ingestive Behavior presented two different experiments, one where women were asked to smell either oranges or chocolate before eating. In another study, women were shown images of food or non-food objects, before being provided a snack.
The difference? In the first experiment, women who were given the smell of fresh oranges ate 60 percent less chocolate, compared to how much they ate after smelling chocolate.
“It might be that the smell of fresh oranges reminded dieters to limit intake of a tempting and diet-forbidden snack,” researcher Nicola Buckland told NPR.
In the second experiment, dieters who were shown images of healthy food tended to eat less than dieters who were shown photos of non-food items.
Researchers imagine that the reminder of eating healthy is enough to make dieters eat just a bit less than they normally would, which means simply seeing or smelling healthy foods could be enough to cue healthy eating.
“When tempted by food, dieters should take a few moments to focus on the sensory properties of healthy food, such as the sight and smell of fruit or salad vegetables,” Buckland said in a press release.
What Do Oranges Have To Do With Weight Loss? was originally published on blackdoctor.org
