Sentences with phrase «unhealthy food purchases»

They were able to control impulses that lead to unhealthy food purchases when they used cash.

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This stops us purchasing unhealthy fast food.

And one in four commuters said that the food and drinks available in transportation centers led them to purchase more fast food items and unhealthy snacks.

You're more likely to give in and purchase unhealthy foods if your children are begging for them or if you're distracted by other people.

Although purchasing packaged foods means that you won't have to spend a long time preparing meals, it also means you may get unhealthy amounts of sodium.

Remember: the best trick to keep yourself from reaching for these unhealthy food choices is not purchasing them in the first place.

To see if the use of credit cards causes unhealthy purchases researchers took 151 college students from Cornell University on a virtual, computer - based, food - shopping trip.

Spendthrifts did not experience the «pain of payment» and so they purchased similar amounts of unhealthy foods regardless of the form of payment.

Once the study was complete, researchers concluded that both debit and credit card purchases had a much higher percentage of «unhealthy / impulsive» foods, and that cash purchases had a much higher percentage of «healthy / planned» foods.