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Cover the candy.


Female secretaries ate roughly two extra pieces of candy candy: see confectionery.
candy

Sweet sugar- or chocolate-based confection. The Egyptians made candy from honey (combined with figs, dates, nuts, and spices), sugar being unknown.
 a day at work if the sweets were stored in a candy dish A saucer-shaped antenna that receives, or transmits and receives, signals from a satellite. See DBS.  that was clear rather than opaque. Keeping the dish on their desk rather than six feet away also prompted the women to average two extra pieces a day.

What's more, the women consistently underestimated (by one piece) the number of candies they ate from the dish on the desk and overestimated (by half a piece) how much they ate from the distant dish.

What to do: Keep snack foods A list of snack foods is shown below. For more information, see snack foods. List of snack foods
Chips
(Crisps)
  • Banana chips
  • Bugles
  • Cheese curls
  • Cheese puffs
  • Combos
  • Corn chips
  • Nachos
  • Pita chips
  • Pretzel
  • Potato chips
 out of reach and out of sight.

International Journal of Obesity obesity, condition resulting from excessive storage of fat in the body. Obesity has been defined as a weight more than 20% above what is considered normal according to standard age, height, and weight tables, or by a complex formula known as the body mass index.  online (doi:10.1038/sj.ijo.0803217)
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Title Annotation:QUICK STUDIES; candy eating
Publication:Nutrition Action Healthletter
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Date:Apr 1, 2006
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