New Delhi (NVI): Eating ice cream after a badly broken relationship may give you temporary relief but it may also lead to weight gain!
According to a research at Penn State University, it has been seen that some people start eating more to suppress their negative feelings after a breakup. Not only this, but they also resort to unhealthy food items sold in the market.
Assistant professor Marissa A Harrison at the university says that the research shows the fact that people are immersed in ice cream for a day or two to get over their relationship.
He said the break can also create a tense and emotionally disturbed, which found that appetite increases.
“If your partner leaves you, then your appetite for food increases a lot,” he added. For the study published in the Journal of the Evolutionary Studies Consortium, researchers conducted two studies to examine this theory, exploring the extent to which weight gain can occur after a relationship breaks down.
In the first study, researchers conducted an online survey, which included 581 people. In the study, they were asked whether their breakup occurred recently or whether they had increased or decreased their weight within a year of the breakup.
Among the people involved in the study, sixty-two (62.7) per cent reported that there was no change in their weight.
For the second study, the researchers conducted a larger and different survey than the first study, in which they included 261 new people.
In the new survey, people were asked whether they experienced weight gain or loss after the end of a long-lasting relationship.
Those surveyed were also asked about their ex-partner’s attitudes about how committed they were to their relationship, who initiated the breakup, whether participants dined emotionally and how they enjoyed the meal in general (taken or not).
The people involved in the survey experienced a breakup at some point in their lives. Most of the people (sixty-five 65.13 per cent) – did not experience any change in their weight after the relationship broke.
“The only thing we found in the second study was that women who used to eat when they were already emotionally distressed gained more weight after their relationship broke. But it was not common,” he added.
