Comfort Food Can Cure Your Winter Blues

According to studies, people crave for comfort foods more when they are down and feel lonely. That is because meaningful dishes trigger the feelings of belonging and help to curb loneliness.

Why you should eat comfort food when feeling uncomfortable?

May be you could not go home for this holidays and so you are finding yourself fighting with your kitchen tools trying to make your Mom’s special recipe of lasagne. Speaking of lasagne, Go Lebanese deals from YUP Card as a part of their Students discounts on Food& Beverages could be a better option for you the novice cook!

Imagine the comfort you will feel when you sit down with this bowl fool of carby goodness, warm and mushy freshly delivered to your liking... and you sit on your comfy couch switching on an old DVD of It’s A Wonderful Life! Doesn’t that make you feel amazingly comfortable? There is a lot more reason and science behind that than being a simple coincidence. 

No doubt that you mom’s cooking is definitely a piece of culinary masterpiece! Every mom’s cooking is. But as you light a pine-scented candle and munch on some carbs actually works by bringing back those nostalgic scents which surround you with warm fuzzies and help to make you feel less alone.

As per studies, memories are very strongly tied to scents and helps you feel good that are further accentuated with the yummy tastes of comfort foods, which humans have come to associate all the good feels with. 

There was a research conducted by Jordan Troisi, an assistant professor of psychology at Sewanee, The University of The South, in 2011, which showed that people who think of their relationships in a positive light, could actually feel better and less lonely when munching on some comfort goodies. 

Troisi tried to build further on this proposition by asking a reversed question, what does the feeling of loneliness and the taste of comfort have with each other? And the findings did prove that the comfort foods taste better when people are going through the winter blues or feeling isolated.

To help you college students feel better when feeling blue and lonely, YUP Card is offering exclusive deals for students like the chocolate room offers to munch on some sugary sweet, warm brownies with extra dose of chocolate.

How does this strange phenomenon of comfort foods helping moods work?

Science explains that people often tend to remember their special loved ones by associating them with the taste and smell of certain foods. Like your grandma’s special curry scent or cookie recipe aroma; as well as to feel fitting in social gatherings. All humans have a tendency to feel belonging. And the taste and smell of different comfort foods not just the typical high-calorie ones, but any cultural comfort food can evoke a sense of nostalgia which helps people feel belonging even when they are not close to their loved ones.

So, the next time you find yourself stuffing your mouth with Apple pie at the OvenFresh (Exclusive deals for college students available), call a loved one and talk for awhile. May be they are eating a sundae at MamaMia (get a YUP Card for special MamaMia offers) missing you!