From: The Washington Post
The flip side of dietary supplement use
April 25, 2011
The Washington Post:
You know those people who take a million dietary supplements a day and act kind of healthier-than-thou about it?
A study to be published in an upcoming issue of Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Psychological Science, might take some wind out of their sails.
In a set of small but clever experiments, researchers from three educational institutions in Taiwan worked to examine whether people who take dietary supplements might treat that behavior as a kind of safety net that entitled them to indulge in foods and activities that aren’t so conducive to good health.
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