Named the main drawback of a healthy diet

To completely eliminate certain food groups from the diet not worth it.

Although now we can replace some other products, but healthy food still has a certain social stigma.

Today, despite the negative reaction to the “pure food” in recent years, many people continue to adhere to a diet free of gluten, refined sugar, animal products and all processed foods.

However, the researchers Suzanne M. Nevin and G. lenny Vartanian believe that healthy eating worsen General human social perception. To do this, scientists asked volunteers to read about a specific individual, and then evaluate it.

They found that people appreciate someone more negatively if they discovered that he was a supporter of healthy food compared to those whose diet was not mentioned. Even more negative was estimated by those whom I characterized as having a clinical eating disorder (anorexia nervosa).

“This study provided evidence for the assumption that commitment to a healthy food can give adverse social consequences, and revealed that this effect was particularly pronounced when the behavior was described by the most extreme,” said the researchers.

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