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Today you learn about why you don't have to sacrifice pleasure to maintain self-control,

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According to researchers, you don't have to sacrifice pleasure to maintain self-control.

And this is good news, obviously.

Because for a lot of us, having self-control means not eating that piece of cake or not buying that new

phone or not watching yet another episode in our latest Netflix binge.

An international team of marketing researcher says that the simple act of

denying your self-pleasure is not the key to self-control because it's not a loss

of self-control if you don't think you'll regret your decision later. So take food

for example. Lots of scientific studies measure self-control by looking at

food choices. You know this from studies we've covered in the past.

Well, for this new paper published in the Journal of Consumer Psychology,

researchers reviewed nearly 300 studies about food,

and they found that nearly all of those studies would basically pit healthy food against unhealthy food.

You know, chocolate cake, soft drinks, and french fries bad.

Fruit salad, granola bars, and yogurt, good.

Seems relatively logical,

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