A law librarian, Christine Hall, decided a few years back that she wanted to lose weight, but she didn't want to go on some strict diet or have to run to the gym everyday.
Three years ago, Pauline Potter was not only about to get divorced from her husband Alex, but she was on the verge of becoming the heaviest women in the world – weighing a heavy-duty 728 pounds at the time she entered herself into the Guinness Book of Records.
For years, many diet experts have advised using smaller plates for our food. By doing so, normal portions look bigger and thus fool us into thinking we’ve eaten more than we have.
Now a group of Japanese researchers have taken that idea one further — they’ve created goggles that make food look larger.
It’s been a little over a week since New Year’s resolutions kicked in, officially long enough to determine if you’ve started that diet that you promised yourself — if, in fact, you picked what is usually the year’s most popular resolution.
When you’re trying to lose weight by cutting down on your food intake your brain is busy chomping down — on itself.
