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ardio, but writing, for only 15 minutes (one time, no less) appears (in a single small study) to have a remarkable influence on weight loss. And yes, it does matter what you write about: You have to write about you. A news release from the Association for Psychological Science reports that researchers at Stanford and the University of Waterloo asked 45 female undergraduates who had a body mass index of 23 or higher to sit down and write for 15 minutes. Half of the group was asked to write about the value that was most important to them, while the other half, a control group, were told to write about why a value far down on their list of values that might be important to someone else. When the women were weighed between one and four months after the writing exercise, researchers found that those who had written about a value of importance to them lost an average of 3.41 pounds, while women who wrote about other people’s values gained an average of 2.76 pounds.
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Reputable universities have decided to allocate their research funds toward this type of study? Seriously? How bizarre.
Let’s hope the test subjects can write better than the person who wrote this article. “Half of the group” is singular and plural in the same sentence and the end of the sentence makes no sense. I could fix it for you.