{"id":339035,"date":"2010-02-19T02:30:00","date_gmt":"2010-02-19T07:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thatsfit.ca\/2010\/02\/19\/will-french-fries-really-make-you-happier\/"},"modified":"2010-02-19T02:30:00","modified_gmt":"2010-02-19T07:30:00","slug":"will-french-fries-really-make-you-happier","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/339035","title":{"rendered":"Will French Fries Really Make You Happier?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Filed under: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thatsfit.ca\/category\/happiness\/\" rel=\"tag\">Happiness<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thatsfit.ca\/category\/healthy-eating\/\" rel=\"tag\">Healthy Eating<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\n<img decoding=\"async\" vspace=\"4\" hspace=\"4\" border=\"0\" align=\"right\" src=\"http:\/\/www.blogcdn.com\/www.thatsfit.ca\/media\/2010\/02\/fries-ist.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/>Even though you know it&#8217;s bad for you, it&#8217;s strangely satisfying to chow down on something salty, greasy and completely sinful, like french fries. And that feeling is not just in your head &#8212; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/health\/article-1251018\/Why-chips-make-feel-chipper.html?ITO=1490\" >recent research proves that scarfing down fries actually does make us feel happier and calmer<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>Dr. Mike Green, a food psychologist from England&#8217;s Aston University, tested the affect of fries on mood by having 60 participants watch a disturbing film on war, then having them either eat a plate of fries or read a magazine to help take their mind off the film. They found that the people who ate the fries were happier and calmer than those who read the magazine &#8212; in fact, the eaters were emotionally back to normal after 20 minutes, unlike the readers.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thatsfit.ca\/2010\/02\/19\/will-french-fries-really-make-you-happier\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Continue reading <em>Will French Fries Really Make You Happier?<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"clear: both; padding: 8px 0 0 0; height: 2px; font-size: 1px; border: 0; margin: 0; padding: 0;\">\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thatsfit.ca\/2010\/02\/19\/will-french-fries-really-make-you-happier\/\" rel=\"bookmark\" title=\"Permanent link to this entry\">Permalink<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thatsfit.ca\/forward\/19362047\/\" title=\"Send this entry to a friend via email\">Email this<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thatsfit.ca\/2010\/02\/19\/will-french-fries-really-make-you-happier\/#comments\" title=\"View reader comments on this entry\">Comments<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Filed under: Happiness, Healthy Eating Even though you know it&#8217;s bad for you, it&#8217;s strangely satisfying to chow down on something salty, greasy and completely sinful, like french fries. And that feeling is not just in your head &#8212; recent research proves that scarfing down fries actually does make us feel happier and calmer. Dr. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":652,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-339035","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339035","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/652"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=339035"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339035\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=339035"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=339035"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=339035"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}