Thinking of starting up on another weight loss diet plan? Before you dive right into the latest and greatest program that you find on the market, you might want to give this some serious thought.

The overall structure of your weight loss diet plan is going to have a strong influence on the results you will see.

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Committed members of the clean plate club have lots of traits in common, many beginning before the food is served.

• Eating everything that is put on the plate.
• Keeping food in the fridge past its sell-by date.
• Eating food about to go off instead of throwing it away.
• Keeping leftovers from every meal.
• Eating your childrens leftovers.
• Buying extra food when its on offer, regardless of need.
• Accepting peoples offers of food rather than be rude.

All these behaviors are usually centered on concerns about wastage, gratitude and fear, but in fact they overlook the real reason why you joined the club in the first place.

Remember, you belong to the clean plate club only because of childhood conditioning.

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Whats All This About Antioxidants?

Antioxidants are used to control free radical damage. Free radicals are produced when the body burns oxygen to produce energy. A free radical is a molecule that has a single, unpaired electron in its outer shell. Free radicals are reactive because they seek stability with an additional electron to make a pair.

They can do damage to other atoms in the body by taking their electrons and making them unstable. This can cause chain reactions that result in cell death. Antioxidants are molecules that have an extra electron, and they can give it to a free radical, thus neutralizing it.

Then the neutralized free radicals leave the body as waste products.

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