Whether you choose celery or chocolate could be a question of how quickly your brain takes healthfulness into account, according to a new study by a team of neuroeconomists at the California Institute of Technology.
"What we wanted to find out was at what point the taste of the foods starts to become integrated into the choice process, and at what point health is integrated," says lead author Nicolette Sullivan, a graduate student at Caltech.
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