Food craving can be a major barrier for those trying to lose weight.
Playing a simple game on a phone can help to reduce food cravings, research suggests.
Three minutes playing a video game reduced cravings for food, alcohol and cigarettes, a study has found.
Food craving can be a major barrier for those trying to lose weight.
Cravings are often focused on unhealthy foods high in sugar, fat and salt, which can make weight loss very difficult.
The game used in the study was ‘Tetris’, an old-fashioned game involving rotating differently shaped blocks.
The game just provides a visual distraction, so other games would probably work as well.
Visual distractors probably work because the mind’s capacity is limited: it is hard to concentrate on two things at any one time.
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