But when you look at fostering sustainable changes to your eating habits, those things are best done in small steps.

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This flexibility means you can monitor your eating habits and health improvement at home or on the road from a mobile device.

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It uses the data to give you feedback on your eating habits which can be viewed online via a sports-tracking-style web interface.

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That means that your friends, your friends' friends, and your friends' friends' friends may all affect your eating habits, voting preferences, happiness, and more.

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There is, of course, a brace of companion mobile apps too for Android and iOS, allowing you to track your eating habits on the go.

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Research published this week in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and conducted at the University of California, San Francisco pinpoints a particular molecule that resets your food clock every time you change your eating habits.

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Reducing your caloric intake works overall, especially if it's done in a way to change your overall eating habits.

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Weigh that before you shell out cash to reform your teen's eating habits.

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Unless your eating plan is the focus of the meal, this is not the time or place to discuss those habits.

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