Drexel’s brain training game can help you eat less sugar


  • TECH
  • Sunday, 19 May 2019

In the game, players move as quickly as possible through a grocery store while putting healthy foods in a grocery cart and refraining from choosing the sweets. (Drexel University/TNS)

Drexel University researchers may have found a way to get people to eat healthier and have fun at the same time. 

Researchers developed a computer game that trained participants’ brains to eat less sugar. Researchers then studied the effects of the game on participants’ weight-loss goals. The study appeared in the March edition of the Journal of Behavioral Medicine

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