Tuesday, May 13, 2008
You Are What You Crave
Your dietary cravings can reveal how you approach problems or new situations, what stresses you, and how you relieve stress, according to a two-year study of the relationship between diet, stress and personality type. Glenn Livingston, Ph.D., psychologist and CEO of marketing research firm Executive Solutions Inc conducted the study, involving 1,500 people.
The study reports, among other intriguing conclusions, that people tend to fall into one of five groups, distinguished by the foods they crave.
The groups are: Chocomaniacs, French Fries, Food for Fun, Carbo Cravers and Food Finessers. Both genetics and psychology affect the types of cravings we have and our ability to control them, and give us clues to our personalities. For example, Chocomaniacs say they value compassion more than objectivity, and their emotional lives are very important to them. Practicing smiling helps them reduce stress.
French Fries are more objective than compassionate and tend to eat when angry or under time pressure. Don’t ask them to smile; they’d rather decompress by curling up with a good book.
Foods for Fun types speak their minds freely and eat when stressed or bored; they need help prioritizing and reducing interruptions.
Carbo Cravers tend to be uncomfortable in unfamiliar social situations and prefer not to travel’ they are likely to own cats.
And finally, Food Finessers, who generally are content to take just a few bites of a variety of things without bingeing, prefer working alone and rely more on logic than emotion, but they combine this with intuition and inductive logic.
The study reports, among other intriguing conclusions, that people tend to fall into one of five groups, distinguished by the foods they crave.
The groups are: Chocomaniacs, French Fries, Food for Fun, Carbo Cravers and Food Finessers. Both genetics and psychology affect the types of cravings we have and our ability to control them, and give us clues to our personalities. For example, Chocomaniacs say they value compassion more than objectivity, and their emotional lives are very important to them. Practicing smiling helps them reduce stress.
French Fries are more objective than compassionate and tend to eat when angry or under time pressure. Don’t ask them to smile; they’d rather decompress by curling up with a good book.
Foods for Fun types speak their minds freely and eat when stressed or bored; they need help prioritizing and reducing interruptions.
Carbo Cravers tend to be uncomfortable in unfamiliar social situations and prefer not to travel’ they are likely to own cats.
And finally, Food Finessers, who generally are content to take just a few bites of a variety of things without bingeing, prefer working alone and rely more on logic than emotion, but they combine this with intuition and inductive logic.
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