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Too good to be true: Dose insensitivity and stereotypical thinking of foods' capacity to promote weight gain

2005-12-01

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It has been well documented that the general public holds many mistaken beliefs about foods and their roles in weight gain and health/disease. For example, foods that are perceived as bad for health (e.g., 3 slices of bacon; 109 calories) are typically judged to promote significantly more weight gain than more reputable foods (e.g., a large raisin bran muffin; 460 calories), even if the “bad” food contains far few...

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Literature Corpus work: 69293e04-1c79-51df-8607-0bad6ea0fee4
DOI: 10.1016/j.foodqual.2005.03.010

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