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stop, and let your hunger decide when you should be done. it took about a year for me to learn this, but itamp。re full, because a lot of weight gain boils down to eating when youamp。re hungry and stop when youamp。s signals so that you eat when youamp。m talking about mindful eating: learning to understand your bodyamp。m not saying you need to learn to meditate or take up yoga. iamp。ve convinced you that dieting might be a problem, the next question is, what do you do about it? and my answer, in a word, is mindfulness. iamp。re more likely to gain weight in the long run than to lose it. if iamp。t have very much reliability. five years after a diet, most people have regained the weight. forty percent of them have gained even more. if you think about this, the typical oute of dieting is that youamp。t lose weight and keep it off. diets donamp。s look at what happens in overweight people. the ones that had no healthy habits had a higher risk of death. adding just one healthy habit pulls overweight people back into the normal range. for obese people with no healthy habits, the risk is very high, seven times higher than the healthiest groups in the study. but a healthy lifestyle helps obese people too. in fact, if you look only at the group with all four healthy habits, you can see that weight makes very little difference. you can take control of your health by taking control of your lifestyle, even if you canamp。d expect, the healthier the lifestyle, the less likely people were to die during the study. now letamp。s start by looking at the normal weight people in the study. the height of the bars is the risk of death, and those zero, one, two, three, four numbers on the horizontal axis are the number of those healthy habits that a given person had. and as youamp。s how i roll. (laughter) this is a study that looked at the risk of death over a 14year period based on four healthy habits: eating enough fruits and vegetables, exercise three times a week, not smoking, and drinking in moderation. letamp。m a geek, and thatamp。t resist throwing i