Got Pain? Fantasizing About Your Favorite Foods Might Make It Go Away.
August 4, 2008 by Liz Lewis
Filed under Food and Drink, Health, How To, Medicine, Morning News, Pain
Got Pain?
Then start fantasizing about all your favorite foods ’cause a new study has found that this seems to be a possible way of coping with chronic and acute pain.
The study had
“…60 healthy subjects to submerge their hand in icy water to determine their pain threshold and tolerance. During the second round, participants were instructed to imagine a favorite meal in detail, a neutral scene, such as people walking, or they were not instructed to fantasize about anything.”
The results, according to Dr. Hamid Hekmat, professor of psychology and lead author of the study, was that
‘…food fantasies such as imagining eating your …read more
