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Canadian Researchers Say Hard Thinking Leads To Big Meals
Anti-Globalism writes with an excerpt from a story at Ars Technica, according to which "a preliminary study from a group of researchers in Quebec suggest that working on a computer may have an additional impact on our waistlines: taxing mental effort appears to cause people to eat significantly more food, even though it doesn't burn many more calories than sitting around and relaxing. The publication, published in a journal called Psychosomatic Medicine, arose from a pilot study that the researchers were performing in order to determine whether a potential connection between mental effort and eating was worth following up on."
But obesity is, by and large a problem of your own making. Attempting to justify it through these means is kind of ridiculous. Don't eat more than you burn.
Yeah, I guess thinking might cause calorie burn which can lead to hunger, but that does not justify eating crap while at a computer and wondering why you're fat.
Long hours computing causes me to forget food... and sleep... and water... and stretching... but interestingly, not sex! Perhaps there's a study I could take part in?
On the other hand, I'm a vegan, so maybe I'm immune. I don't ever crave cheese or animal fats, having not eaten any of either for many years.
No, maybe you are just an idiot... You know that phrase "Stop and smell the roses"? Try that sometime.
Sucpiciously convenient, that a bunch of guys who do nothing all day, but sit around thinking, suddenly has the perfect excuse to be fat, is it not?
... like, whatever. Fat asses.
Fuck systemd. Fuck Redhat. Fuck Soylent, too. Wait, scratch the last one.