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Fass plays Frank GAME BOYS: Eight-year-olds Lennon Kelly and Calum Magee tested out the new Multi Use Games Area (Muga) space at Aldborough Place, off Portland Row, Dublin 1 yesterday, as Cllr Lucy McRoberts, representing Dublin’s Lord Mayor, Oisín Quinn, opened the new space complete with a floodlit allweather tarmac surface marked out for football and basketball Picture: Jason clarke
You wouldn’t like me when i’m ‘hangry’… HUSBANDS and wives are are more likely to quarrel if they are ‘hangry’ – hungry and angry, say scientists. Experts believe low levels of blood sugar may be linked to marital arguments, confrontations and even domestic violence. The antidote is to eat a carbohydrate snack or something sugary, suggesting that cake or chocolate might placate an angry spouse. ‘People can relate to this idea that when they
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get hungry, they get cranky,’ said US researcher Dr Brad Bushman, from Ohio State University. ‘We found that being hangry can affect our behaviour in a bad way, even in our most intimate relationships.’ Dr Bushman’s team conducted a study with 107 married couples that involved sticking pins into voodoo dolls representing spouses.
Each husband and wife was allocated a doll and, acting alone, told to stick up to 51 pins in it at the end of each day, depending on how angry their spouse had made them. Participants also used a blood glucose meter to test their blood sugar for 21 days. The results, reported in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, showed that lower blood glucose in the evening coincided with more pins in the voodoo dolls.
Wives tended to stick more pins in the dolls than husbands, though not by many. ‘When they had lower blood glucose, they felt angrier and took it out on the dolls,’ said Dr Bushman. ‘Even those who had good relationships with their spouses were more likely to express anger if their glucose levels were low. ‘It’s simple advice: Before you have a difficult conversation with your spouse, make sure you’re not hungry,’ said Dr Bushman.
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