It's Not a Good Time to Give Up Junk Food

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With the economy prompting consumers to reduce discretionary spending, you might expect junk food to fall off their shopping lists. But the psychological wear and tear of a recession also leads people to indulge in small-ticket guilty pleasures. Thus, 31 percent of respondents to an iVillage poll — 26 percent of men, 36 percent of women — admitted to eating more junk food in the past two years.

It’s not as if people are insensible to the multiple effects diet has on them — though that’s more true of women than of men.

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