Classical music ‘makes you reach for sweets’

Classical music ‘makes you reach for sweets’

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norman lebrecht

September 09, 2021

A Japanese study reported in the academic journal Food Quality and Preference has found that listening to classical music makes people more likely to reward themselves with sugary foods.

The same survey finds that classical music made them feel calmer.

Some contradiction, surely?

Read here.

Or here.

Have another marzipan.

 

Comments

  • John Borstlap says:

    It’s true! My aunt Cecilia in NY suffered from anorexia & looked like a skeleton when she was advised by her therapist to listen to the flute harp concerto by Mozart. This took her into classical music addiction and now she’s some 300 kilo & is no longer allowed into the Met – until they have new seats. Now her therapist is advising listening to Boulez to get into fat balance & I think that’s right because I am in perfect shape myself through my CD collection!

    Sally

  • Brettermeier says:

    “Have another marzipan.”

    It’s not even fall, you brute! 😉

  • fflambeau says:

    Maybe the Austrians who have turned Mozart into a chocolate salesman were on to something.

  • David K. Nelson says:

    There may be something to this. Is a gin and tonic a “sweet?”

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