Music: according to a study, listening to metal would make you fat

Heavy metal - literally "heavy metal" - has never been so well named!According to a study, lovers of Rammstein, Metallica or even Iron Maiden - Massive men, long hair, fervent lovers of beer as legend wants - would tend to turn to greater food than lovers of reggae orjazz.

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The Danish University of Aarhus highlighted that our musical choices would have an influence on our food choices.In this specific case, hard-rock would encourage fatty foods, while classical music, to take only this example, would push to turn to healthy foods.

This research was carried out in China and Denmark on a sample of 215 people.It was a question of understanding the effects of a specific soundtrack on nutritional choices and eye movements in consumers of different cultures.

"Generally, when we think of food, we think of taste, aroma and, of course, by sight, but the sound has been, I would say, underestimated" explains one of the researchers of theDanni Peng-Li study.

The authors rely on the analysis of mediation, discipline of social psychology which highlights the processes through which a factor influences psychological functioning or human behavior to understand the phenomenon.An ocular monitoring system of the 114 Chinese participants and the 105 Danish participants was implemented in the laboratory in order to study towards which foods they turned.

The authors conclude that it is possible to strategically choose sounds to influence consumer decision -making and guide their attention to healthier food.

But do not panic another study dating from 2015 showed that listening to metal could make calmer.Metal, good for morale, would therefore be a highway for hell, as the ac/dc for the body...