Article: Diet diaries help one stick to eating plan.(News)

BYLINE: Daily Mail

You've heard of the crash diet - now here comes the flash diet.

A study has shown that slimmers who take photographs of their meals stick more carefully to their diet than others.

By having pictorial evidence of how they have been feeding themselves, dieters have a guilt trip about the quality and quantity of what they are eating.

These photo diaries also make it easy to keep a tab on the number of calories consumed, scientists say.

Many food experts argue that food diaries - where daily consumption is recorded in a notebook - help to stop overeating and snacking.

They are thought to work by shaming the dieting diarist into eating ...

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