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How comfort foods beat the blues
The Telegraph: It works by reminding people of their childhood actually fight feelings of isolation by making people feel like they belong. Psychologists at the University of Buffalo in the US wanted to find out
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Comfort Foods Help Alleviate Loneliness
Food Product Design: A new study in the journal Psychological Science suggests comfort foods can help fight loneliness. In the study, volunteers were asked to spend several minutes writing about a fight with a friend
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How even just thinking about comfort food is good for the soul
The Daily Mail: Comfort food may be bad for the waistline but it is good for the soul, say researchers. A study found that even thinking about mashed potato, chicken soup or chocolate pudding can
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Chicken Soup for the Soul: Comfort Food Fights Loneliness
People who were generally secure in their relationships were able to mitigate feelings of loneliness by writing about a comfort food.
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Isolating the Costs of Loneliness
Research shows that feeling lonely can affect both physical and mental health and it also reveals some strategies for combating these negative effects.
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Observations
Those Were the Days: Counteracting Loneliness with Nostalgia With the days getting shorter (and colder) and the holidays quickly approaching, many of us start thinking back to days gone by. All of us are struck
