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Leave Food on Your Plate

No Clean Plate

From , former About.com Guide

Updated March 01, 2007

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Your "clean plate club" membership will make you overweight. Those 3 or 4 'last bites' to just finish up equal hundreds of calories everyday. Never clean your plate; always leave at least one bite of food. It may be difficult to throw away food, but that extra food is better in the garbage than in your body.

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