Want to Eat Less? Eat With a Dude!

Edwin Goei • OC Weekly • October 5, 2011
Listen to this: According to a study published on Journal of Applied Social Psychology, if you eat with a man, you're likely to eat less food than if you dined with a woman. The experiment observed the habits of 127 college students and took note...
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