Found the relationship between personality type and a healthy lifestyle
People who are open to new experiences — for example, likes to travel, is more inclined to a healthy lifestyle and healthy diet, shows a new study.
The researchers analyzed the habits of more than 1,000 young people aged 17 to 25 years. Participants were asked to take a test to measure the “big five” personal qualities: openness to learning, conscientiousness, extraversion, friendliness and neuroticism. Then the part of the experiment participants were asked to keep a diet diary for 21 days, and the other for 13 days, says The Huffington Post.
The subjects who received the highest scores in the category “openness to learning”, eating 4.5 times more dishes with fruits and vegetables in a week compared to those who scored the lower score. In addition, “open”, the participants ate less junk food like chips and fast food. Agreeableness also had an effect on eating vegetables and fruits, but not as much as openness, while the conscientiousness did not affect the diet.
The study only showed correlation of personal qualities of the man and his diet, but not a causal relationship between these factors. Also helps us to understand how much our behavior affects our food.
Probably people who are open to new life experience, try to enrich your menu, always trying new fruits and vegetables. But there is feedback: the consumption of fruits and vegetables often for a short period of time make people extroverts, scientists say.