Earlier today I was having a think about healthy and unhealthy diets and the TV show 'You Are What You Eat'. In the programme they often show the people taking part a weeks worth of their food altogether on one table and it occurred to me that what really makes the images striking is the sea of browns, oranges and reds. But then it's not so much because of the colours but because of how we associate them with food. When the table is filled with leafy greens and colourful fruit it emanates energy and health, whereas the table of less healthy food envokes a feeling of sickness and repulsion. Perhaps the orange and brown colours hold an association of processed, unnatural food and the greens appeal to our instincts.
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