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How to eat well—and still feel full

BY NOW YOU KNOW THE BASICS OF A healthy diet: lots of fruits and vegetables, some nuts, healthy dairy and a little fish and lean meat. But that doesn’t mean you always abide by those rules—or that they’re easy to follow.

Most food choices are guided by hunger—which can lead people to make in-the-moment decisions that don’t line up with their longer-term nutrition goals. In fact, research suggests that one of the strongest predictors of whether a diet will be successful is how hungry a person feels while he or she is on

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