Do you think too much........?

by Ysk P for Dream Visions    September 07, 2008

A new Candain study shows that thinking too much can lead to over eacting and thus obesity .The study was conducted at Universite Laval in Quebec City.There are 14 students involved in this study who were tasked with, just sitting and relaxing ,reading and summarising a text  , and doing memory text on a computer.

They observed that how much energy consumed to each tasks.From this they found that,the three tasks consumed very little energy 3 calories for doing mental work ,203 calories for reading and summarising text 253 for computer based memory test.

The study  leader   Jean Philippe Chaput  said that , glucose serves as fuel for brain during any mental or intellectual work. To meet this need and keep its glucose balance in check the body might be consuming more food,thus more calories needed.

The main problem is we are less physically active when doing intellectual tasks it will lead to obesity epidemic,so be carefull....

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