If you spend most of your relationship fighting with your partner, you may want to reevaluate your relationship… or your diet.
Researchers at Ohio State University are launching a major study that may confirm the hypothesis that unhealthful diets are linked to marital stress. During the study, married couples are asked to attend two day-long research sessions together at Ohio State’s Clinical Research Center. During each visit, blood samples are taken and the couples eat meals that appear identical. At one visit, the food is high in saturated fat,while the the other meal is low in saturated fat. The couples are asked to discuss a stressful subject in their marriage, such as finances, in-laws, annoying habits, etc. More blood is taken afterward to determine if the stressful discussions influence how the body processes the fat in the food by looking for changes in triglycerides.
The head of the study Kiecolt-Glaser hypothesizes: ”What you’re eating may actually interact with your behavior, to make things worse in terms of your physiological response”.
Although the results won’t be known until 2014, early predictions are that healthy diets = happy relationships.
What do you think of this study? Do you feel more prone to arguing after a day of unhealthy eating?
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Not surprising. My non scienftific reasoning would be that when you eat basty, you feel like crap and thus act like crap, aka grumpy. When you eat right, you feel good and thus are happier and act as such.
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THE Ohio State University. Get it right. lol
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Could be possible. I agree with ShirleyD, that when you eat right you feel good. I’m interested to see what the results are like in 2014.
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Correlation does not equal causation, and controls are hard with humans who also go about normal lives… I feel more bleh after a bad diet day but not more argumentative.
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uhhm, I feel great after eating a scrumptious snickers bar but feel unsatisfied and bleh after I eat a salad
the specific topic of discussion is what provokes their angry/annoyed response. just hearing anyone say that he/she is going to begin talking about in-laws makes me very annoyed
because since when is happiness linked to in-laws. so it automatically makes me get ready to verbally attack the bitchy and nosy in-laws when the in-law topic or other topic which I hate rolls around, because of the biased preconceived notions of the topic even before it is discussed. UGGGGHHH
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Eh, junk food doesn’t make grumpy, just lazy and too tired to argue. However, if I’ve had a healthy meal, I’ve got more energy and I’m more likely to retaliate and get annoyed.
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Hmm…. junk food just makes me want to sleeeeeeeeeeeeep.
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@Shadowrunner81@xanga - hahahaha i feel the same way when people say notre dame university instead of university of notre dame.
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The funny thing is, I thought this would be about my DIET affecting my relationship…as in the diets that I go on to lose weight, because those turn me into a real bitch sometimes.
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@Cambios@xanga - Yeah, I was wondering how they would go about studying this because there seems to be an awful lot of room for spuriousness.
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Definately. Take consuming alcohol for example. Feeling drunk during the actual experience is relaxing, but I find it often comes with a penalty- being dehydrated the following day. That really affects my mood.
Had I otherwise been consuming a plethora of fruits&vegetables, lean meats, and plenty of water, I think I might be less prone to argue about something, with anyone – partner or not. I think that this study could be applied towards all social interaction in general.
You are what you eat. If you’re consuming a high-fat diet (as opposed to one low in sat fats), then logically your body is using more of it’s energy to metabolize more fat – so you might not be as energetic as a person on say, a sushi diet. Or a severe and sudden banana addiction. -shrug- Might make you prone to be more argumentative, and in less of a gregarious mood.
Science rules.
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Regime remains popular in Spain. The French nutritionist Pierre Dukan has achieved 12 million readers of his guidebook to follow the diet. But time has passed, especially in France, where he began to become popular a decade ago, to assess its effectiveness: the rebound, the recovery of the lost kilos, and the possible relationship of the method with kidney and other health imbalances overshadow the ultimate miracle 7 Day Belly Blast Diet: out kilos in a matter of days and eat their fill (between 70 foods). This has been again reminded the French health authorities and endorsed recent polls.