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[b]Chips 'make you more cheerful'[/b]Chips can improve people's moods, making them calmer and more cheerful, according to researchers.
Experts believe that it may be because of the carbohydrates in chips, or simply because the taste and smell are associated with happy times, such as seaside holidays.
The research, [b]commissioned by the Potato Council[/b] and carried out by Aston University in Birmingham, asked 60 men and women to watch a five-minute film which graphically depicted the fall-out of the atom bomb dropped on Hiroshima at the end of the Second World War.
Half were then given a magazine to take their mind off the film, while the other half were given a plate of chips. They were also asked to fill in a questionnaire before and after the film and after finishing the chips or reading.
Dr Mike Green, from Aston University, said: "The psychological data showed that participants who were feeling down felt better after eating chips.
"In fact, calmness was restored after 20 minutes.
"It may be down to the biological effects of the nutritional components on brain chemistry or simply a pleasurable sensation, triggered by the way chips taste."
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/foodanddrink/foodanddrinknews/7239605/Chips-make-you-more-cheerful.html
Sounds like a really well thought out experiment, and some really revealing conclusions too. Well done Dr Mike Green.
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anything to do with global warming 😀
seems to cause hair-loss though ❓
mmmmmmmmm.....chips
[url= http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/series/badscience ]This is always good for a laugh....[/url]
I'm feeling quite depressed about the lack of chips in front of me know.
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I was really struggling to believe I wasn't reading the Daily Mash.
That's the thing, you can make data & stats say anything you want.
That's the thing, you can make data & stats say anything you want.
40% of people know that.
Daddy?
Chips?
Theres a suggestion that the bullshit factory that used to make up the science/health stories in the Daily Mail now run things at the Daily Telegraph. But that clearly can't be the case, I mean read that, its quality journalism from a respected broadsheet, giving us information about chips that may very well save out lives. 🙂
Apparently if you feed your children chips they won't get cancer from the MMR jab. And drinking red wine will stop us from getting global warming on our balls.
Theres a reason why people on here post links to stories in the Mail and Telegraph every bloody day. Its because the Mail and Telegraph want you to post links to their stories here every bloody day. Whether you buy the paper, whether you think the story its laughable, or genuinely informative, or controversial. They only want you to cut and paste the link. The story, even if there is the hint of one, is completely secondary to that. And everybody posts the links. Hooray
Oh we hope it's chips it's chips....... 😆
Theres a reason why people on here post links to stories in the Mail and Telegraph every bloody day. Its because the Mail and Telegraph want you to post links to their stories here every bloody day.
Yeah I know I am falling into their evil trap.
I use an RSS reader and in the interest of balance I have pretty much every national newspaper's feeds on there - but I think the Daily Mail and Telegraph ones only serve to wind me up generally.
Its because the Mail and Telegraph want you to post links to their stories here every bloody day
Newspapers, like any other business, are there to make a profit.
They don't make money by providing free web content unless visitors then go on to buy the paper or click on the adverts.
Posting laughable surveys based on results from only 60 participants is hardly going to make people want to buy the paper to read more of this stuff.
They don't make money by providing free web content unless visitors then go on to buy the paper or click on the adverts.
dooooood, there's even money in the tiny percentages that respond to spam email, never mind viral bullshit like this. I'd imagine that many people daft enough to follow & propagate these links will also tend to click on ads "oooh, look, a timeshare ..."
Bad Science readers will know about these already, but the Daily Mail Oncological Ontology Project, and [url= http://kill-or-cure.heroku.com/ ]Kill or Cure[/url] (an exhaustive list of things that either cause or cure cancer, or do both, according to the DM) are good for a laugh. Or a cry.
Its because the Mail and Telegraph want you to post links to their stories here every bloody day
Do they only do this to stir people up on STW?
Has STW's chat forum become a social barometer?
I'm impressed!
90% of statistics are made up on the spot.
(I think Spike Milligan said that one...or certainly something very like it.)
Theres money in it for the the Potato Council who hand ready made articles to the press to print out, allowing them to circumvent advertising and food labelling legislation. You can't make a health claim in an advert or on a food label without it being verifiable. But you can make any claim you like under the guise of 'news'. Which is why food labels and adverts will tell you that a product is an excellent source of Antioxidants but stop short of making any claim as to what antioxidants might do for you. Maybe they'll kill you, who knows, but they'll do it 'excellently". You pay for the advert, then hand the paper a 'news' article to print next to it, making any claim you like.
deadlydarcy - Member
90% of statistics are made up on the spot.
and the other 30% are worked out wrongly
scaredypants - Memberand the other 30% are worked out wrongly
Can't fault your effort today dude. You gave 120%! 🙂
chips are going to make you happy if you are watching a graphic 5 minute film of the Hiroshima bomb being dropped.
fact, no need for any research, me thinks.
My granddad (God rest his soul) used to say this:
"There are 3 types of lies, lad. 1.Lies. 2.Damn Lies and 3.Statistics. Remember that and you won't go wrong..."
And 80% of the time 10% of my information is 43% true...
Seriously, no wonder some people can't handle lots of real information with "science" like that... It's just a way to sell more of any given product, in this case chips.
Are chips a whole food group anyway?!?!? 😀
Are chips a whole food group anyway?!?!?
They are part of the food group "....and chips"
Who needs to make an effort to sell chips anyway? Its like trying to persuade people to breath.