In a positive mood you pay attention to foods ingredients, recipes, and their healthy properties, isn’t it?
In a positive mood people are more future-focused and they are more likely to prefer healthy foods to indulgent ones for long-term health benefits and abstract goals in order to stay in shape not only physically.
In a bad mood, instead, you demand immediate mood management benefits with a greater consideration of concrete goals, thus you eat especially indulgent foods rather than healthy foods.
Take a look at the 3 following studies that provide an evaluation of the effects of mood and temporal construal on food consumption.
Remember: Indulgent foods are foods that comfort and give immediate satisfaction and benefits, frequently with a high sugar or carbohydrate content (e.g., chocolate)
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