The next time you’ve had a less-than-great day, or your mood dips, or you listen to two or more of The Weeknd's songs in a row, apparently, there’s one simple way to make yourself feel better: by eating a bowl of pasta!
That’s the word, according to a study conducted by the Behavioral and Brain Lab at the Free University of Languages and Communication IULM in Milan, Italy
According to the researchers, eating pasta was more effective than sports or music at “activating cognitive memory processes,” which is a fancy way of saying that it helped the participants remember or recall specific things.
Researchers watched and quantified the participants’ facial expressions and determined that a bowl of pasta was equally likely to be an “indicator of happiness” as that person’s favorite song, and it was significantly more likely to generate positive facial expressions than watching sport.
So go ahead and have that bowl of pasta the next time you need a little mood boost. We’re talking to you too, The Weeknd.