Science of Snacks: Thinking Makes You Hungry

Why reading this story might cause you to clean out the fridge--and other mysteries explained

Why am I so hungry after writing one of these columns? I have often wondered. Now comes an answer.
A study in the journal Psychosomatic Medicine contends that intellectual work—that’s right, I’m calling writing this stuff, ya know, intellectual—induces a big increase in caloric intake. (... more)