Blogpost 3: It's NOT really the comfort food! Say what?!

Every people who have problems look for something to do to release the bad feelings they have, one of these is eating their comfort food. They say eating that is one of the best thing to do to surpass the heavy feeling you're having, that you will only going to be satisfied once you tasted great and delicious comfort food of yours. Eating your favorite strawberry cake or cheesy burger will uplift these heaviness? But, are these really true? Is only your chosen comfort food can help you? Wherein an specific food can't make you feel better.

I mentioned in my previous blog that comfort food resembles the happy memories that is why it can change your mood, nevertheless, I have read an article entitled, "Comfort Food Myth: Ice Cream May not Boost you Mood" by a senior write, Rachael Rettner and according to the article, Heather Scherschel Wagner, a researcher had an study showing that not only one person's specific comfort food will ease the pain he's feeling. After the respondents in the study watched a sad tormenting movie  for 20 minutes long, all of them were depressed and in pain. The searchers gave some of the respondents their specific comfort food, some got any kind of food and some got nothing. In the end, these respondents were fine after awhile, even though some did not got their specific comfort food and others did not get anything at all.

Rachael mentioned,"But the new findings suggest that, "whether it's your comfort food, or it’s a granola bar, or if you eat nothing at all, you will eventually feel better. Basically, comfort food can't speed up that healing process," Wagner said. It makes sense that people would attribute an improvement in mood to something they ate, without realizing that the food wasn't necessarily responsible for the mood change. "[People] like to find explanations for things," Wagner said."

The quotation above means that even without eating you comfort food, can still make your feeling better and it does not uplift you  faster. It's just our nature to find reasons of everything that happens to us, that we even thought that food solves everything.

The article "Comfort Food Is a Myth" by Tom Jacobs strengthened the believe of the article above. In Jacobs article, he also mentioned a study like Wanger did, and in the end they have the same result. That people's bad feeling will not be removed by food. Even though most of the respondents from the research strongly believe that their comfort food can make them feel better.

Jacob mentioned, "Participants' moods improved over time," the researchers report. However, they add, "this happened to the same extent regardless of which type of food they ate, or whether they at any food at all." 

Meaning you eat or not, the bad feeling you have improves when time passes by. Food has nothing to do in improving you mood. It is just people's excuse to eat more and more and more! Haha these article enlighten me and adds up my learning and yet I just lost my reason why I eat every time I'm feeling sad. Hmm this articles sucks!