Diet Tip: Don't Be a Member of the Clean Plate Club


Updated 09/29/08 7:46 AM · Posted by FitSugar · 24 comments

Diet Tip: Don't Be a Member of the Clean Plate Club

When you were a child, were you encouraged to be a member of the "Clean Plate Club"? Entrance to the club required that you finish every bit of food on your plate because "kids were starving in Africa." Or "India." Or "China" — the country, or continent seems to vary from household to household. Sometimes, dessert was leveraged as a reward for cleaning your plate. Your parents meant well, but Read more