See sugar, eat sugar

When it comes to healthy snacking, good intentions get their butt kicked by sugar. A candy bar has more control over your actual behavior than an apple.

Dutch researchers asked 585 people to pick between an apple, a banana, a candy bar or a molasses waffle. Huh? Is a molasses waffles a Dutch gnosh? Around half indicated they'd choose fruit. But when presented with the snacks a week later, 27 percent of the fruit-choosers reached for the candy bar or sugary waffle, and nearly all the the candy bar/waffle-choosers stuck with their original intention.

Lesson learned -- back-up your best intentions with no junk food in the house. If that waffle keeps calling your name, here's a recipe for a healthier spelt molasses waffle over at The Whole Wheat.