Guilt. It's everywhere, isn't it? And you can always find it at the dinner table. Too much of this, not enough of that -- sometimes we're never more self-critical that when we're eating. But experts say that you don't have to be "good" 100% of the time and that even that connotation of "good" and "bad" can be damaging. As long as you have a generally healthy diet, it's ok to splurge a little now and then.

Food guilt can lead to emotional eating, according to this article from Self. If you struggle with good food/bad food guilt, take a look and learn how to look at your eating in a whole new, more positive light while making changes that may improve your daily menu.

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This sounds too good to be true, so it probably is. But scientists think they may have found the secret to "weight loss in a pill."

Apparently all this excitement is due to a drug that has been developed that revs up the metabolism in mice, much the same as physical activity would. The mice are able to eat as much of a high-fat, high-calorie diet as they want and they don't gain weight.

Now what works in mice doesn't always work in people (so I wouldn't get your hopes up), and that doesn't even consider possible side-effects and health complications something like this might cause. And I'm wondering: if this revs up the body as if it were working out, does that mean I'll be sitting on my couch breathing heavy and sweating profusely while watching TV? Ugh, no thanks.

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When talking about portion sizes in the standard American diet, it's really frightening to see those huge plates in restaurants and in home kitchens. Where did all this food come from (for a single meal, anyway)?

Those larger portions are causing many of us to overeat, and endocrine disruptors like MSG (and similar glutamic acid variants like yeast extract) make us continue eating way beyond when out body is full. In other words, more food sales at the expense of more obesity. Not good.

The way to break the overeating cycle would be to avoid MSG and yeast extract in your foods (which takes a large effort, trust me) or write down that you'll only eat so much -- then stop eating once that goal is reached (no matter how much food is left).

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