Diet foods and ban on snacks could cause obesity

According to recent reports, those people that ate special low calorie foods faced a greater likelihood of eating larger portions and thereby developing obesity . A research team of experimental psychologists found that this type of anti-obesity effort could actually be counterproductive.
A research team from Bristol University found that people offered low calorie foods ate bigger portions. A group of volunteers were provided with a number of different foods, and when it came to diet options they almost universally overcompensated.
Furthermore, those children who were banned from eating sweets and chocolate were more likely to binge on calories. Dr. Brunstrom was reported in dietary news as commenting: “These findings suggest that limiting access to certain snack foods limits learning about their properties. Thus, when snack foods are eventually encountered they might tend to be selected in larger portions .”