Surprise! Why You Actually Eat MORE In January
The stuffing, gingerbread cookies and peppermint bark are gone, but new research shows you're probably putting away even more calories than you were over the holidays. (Umm, WHAT?!) Here's why, plus how to rehab your shopping list for a healthier post-holiday season. source Think you ate like crazy during the holidays? You might be consuming more calories now than you were when you were loading up on sugar cookies and eggnog. That's the word from a new study published in PLOS One . For the study, researchers from the Cornell Food and Brand Lab tracked the supermarket spending habits of 207 households and found that, while shoppers filled their carts with more calories during the holiday season than they did throughout the summer and early fall, they bought even more after the New Year than during the holidays. From January to March, they purchased 890 more calories per weekly serving (the total number of calories purchased for each person in the household to eat per we...