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You diet habit might reveal what you are thinking — Death!

Researchers, who published their study in the August issue of the Journal of Consumer Research, wrote that people tend to consume more variety of foods when they think that they will die some day.  People with low self-esteem also eat more food after death-thoughts participants.  Study leaders Naomi Mandel of Arizona State University and Dirk Smeesters from Erasmus University Rotterdam reckon the over-consumption behaviour is a form of ‘heightened self-awareness’ (escape from self-awareness).

I wonder why can’t it be another way round?  People who think of death felt that their life is limited, therefore they want to try everything they could before they die.

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