Are the benefits of exercise all in your head?
Last week, Morning Edition on NPR included a fascinating story about “whether our perception of how much exercise we are getting has any effect on how our bodies actually look.”
To do this, Harvard psychologist Ellen Langer studied hotel maids, 67% of whom felt they didn’t exercise, despite walking all day and lugging heavy equipment around.
When told they exceeded the surgeon general’s guidelines for fitness, they started losing weight.
Read or listen to the story here:
NPR | MORNING EDITION | Hotel Maids Challenge the Placebo Effect by Alix Spiegel