Keep low-calorie foods close to choose them more often

By Shereen Jegtvig NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – In a new study suggesting laziness could be tapped as a tool for healthier eating, people reached for low-calorie apple slices more often than buttery popcorn when the apples were within easier reach. “There are the little things that we can do to just make our diets healthier, and one of them is the simple idea to just put the healthy foods closer to you and you’ll find you can use your laziness to your advantage,” Gregory Privitera told Reuters Health. Privitera, a psychology researcher at Saint Bonaventure University in Bonaventure, New York, led the study, which he says was inspired by experience with his kids. “Every time my kids would tell me, ‘I want a snack,’ I would point to the bowl of fruit on the kitchen table and just say, ‘go at it – you can have as many as you want.,’ and they’d say, ‘oh I don’t want that,’ and I’d say, ‘okay then, make your own snack,” Privitera recalled.