4 Things Your Holiday Eating Habits Reveal About You
Updated: Oct. 04, 2018
What do your eating habits say about you? According to these four research findings, quite a lot, it seems.
1. If you devour your gingerbread man head first…
It means you’re probably a leader. Yes, someone actually studied this. If you munch on a gingerbread man’s noggin before eating the rest of the cookie, you’re likely a natural-born leader, according to a 2010 analysis by Dr. Alan Hirsch, the neurological director of the Smell & Taste Treatment and Research Foundation in Chicago. Start with the legs? You’re sensitive. Creative types gobble the left arm first, while pessimists go for the right.
2. If you bake spiced cookies…
It means you probably enjoy new experiences. A study published in the journal Food Quality and Preference in 2013 found that people with a taste for adventure – whether it’s watching high-octane movies or exploring new places – are also more likely to have a taste for spice in their food.
3. If you drink white wine…
It means you probably over-pour. White-wine drinkers serve themselves 9.2 per cent more vino than their red-wine-drinking counterparts do, according to a 2014 study out of Iowa State and Cornell universities. (The low colour contrast of white wine in a clear glass can makes it difficult to gauge an appropriate level.)
4. If you force yourself to eat a dish you don’t like…
It means you’re probably going to start a dinner-table argument. In a 2011 study published in Psychological Science, people who were given a bitter beverage made harsher judgments about individuals in questionable moral situations – like a student stealing a library book – than those who were given a sweet drink or water. So if you want to avoid fighting about politics with your cousin, stop eating foods you know you don’t enjoy.
