Consumers Buy Healthier Foods For Themselves

This hopeful article proves the rampant altruism worldwide. Since people buy "healthy" foods for themselves and people are getting fatter and fatter, i.e., unhealthier, the only explanation can be that others, Good Samaritans, are treating much of the world to food.

Feel like Mom is pushing dessert? According to a new study in the Journal of Consumer Research, consumers choose foods that are less healthy when they are purchasing for others.

In a series of studies on food choice, author Juliano Laran (University of Miami) discovered that consumers exert more self-control when they make choices for themselves.

It is apparently better to give than receive.