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Diet tip: Keep your dirty dishes in view

Posted: Sep 30th 2007 8:39AM by Martha Edwards
Filed under: Healthy Habits, Diet and Weight Loss

Here's a diet tip from Prevention Magazine. Don't do your dishes -- at least not right away. Let your dirty dishes pile up on the counter next to the sink. Why engage in such sloppy, uncouth behaviour, you ask? Well, it can help you moniter how much you're eating, and it can discourage you from dirtying yet another dish.

Ok, so this strategy might sound a bit bogus, but consider this -- researchers at Cornell University have confirmed that this works. They studied people at a chicken-wing buffet, and results showed that those who's plates were left to pile up next to them ate 28% less than those who had their empty plates removed.

So as long as you're not leaving them long enough to become a moldy health hazard, feel free to put off doing the dishes for a while!

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