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9th May 2016
10:55pm BST

"I almost always have mint gum in my mouth. You have to take it out to have a bite of junk food, and it's a pain," Oprea says.
"Mint gum also ruins the flavour of most things. If I do take it out, nothing is going to taste good anyway."
Oprea says you should try this trick when you're going out to somewhere you know there's going to be piles on unhealthy good - office party, curry night or watching footy with the lads.
There's the double whammy gum chewing helping to supress your appetite - particularly where snacking is concerned.
Gum chewing was found to decrease desire for both sweet and salty snacks in a study in Appetite which also showed that people who chewed gum for 15 minutes after lunch at 10% less that those who didn't when offered a snack three hours later.
If you're not too keen on chewing gum, she says that Listerine PocketPaks work the same way.
"Those sheets will ruin your taste buds in a second. After having one in your mouth, everything tastes disgusting. It's like using mouthwash before you eat something," she says.
And that's your problem solved right there.
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