Yum! Yum! Yum!

Guess what! They’ve discovered that if you think about eating something yummy long enough, you can fool your brain into thinking you actually ate the goodies.

Just thinking about it is enough to satiate your hunger.

They call it “habituation.”

At least that’s what Science journal is reporting. Researchers tested mental M&M’s. They had their subjects go through the mental exercise of chewing and swallowing 30 M&M’s, one after the other until they were all gone. Control groups either ate three mental M&M’s, or no M&M’s at all.

Then, the test subjects were given a bowl of real M&M’s. The ones who had mentally eaten their M&M’s ate half as many pieces of candy as those who mentally consumed three or none.

Therefore, it’s not true that thinking about a yummy food results in your eating MORE of it when you get a chance.

Personally, I’ll pass on the mental yummies. Gimme the real thing anytime!