A new research conducted by psychologists at the University of Buffalo has found that comfort foods can boost a person's heart and emotions. The experts added that eating sausages, chicken soup, chocolate pudding, bacon sandwiches and ice-cream and other comfort foods can induce similar effect as of watching favorite TV show, or looking at photos of friends and family.

Psychologists say that comfort foods enhance such effects because they remind the people about their happier times, childhood meals and family holidays. The old memories and thoughts can boost mood and keeps the feeling of loneliness at a bay.

Comfort foods bare bad for people's health and waistline but good for soul. Jordan Troisi, a researcher at the University of Buffalo says that "It seems comfort food is a sort of ready-made easy resource for remedying a sense of loneliness".

A survey conducted by the researchers of US on a group of volunteers who feel lonely has revealed that comfort food could bring improvement in the feeling of loneliness.