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Peoples' e-mail service may reveal the likelihood of their repaying debts. In 2011 Credit Karma (a website providing free credit scores subsidized by advertising) used its database of about 100,000 users to figure out the average credit scores of people using various e-mail services. Credit scores range from 501 to 900 - the higher the score, the likelier a person was to repay debts on time. BellSouth users had the highest score (697) followed by Comcast (688), Gmail (677), MSN (663), Hotmail (660), AOL (659) and Yahoo (641). My e-mail service wasn't included in the study - for which I "get no credit".

The NPD Group (a market research company) conducts a Kitchen Audit every 3 years. In 2011 the average kitchen always had yogurt, eggs, Cheddar cheese, soy sauce and solid-packed pumpkin. The average kitchen never had acai berry juice, fresh artichokes, fresh turnip, mincemeat in any form or almonds. More than 30% of American households had go-to dinner recipes they turned to at least weekly. Almost 20% had a favorite dessert they ate at least weekly. Also families of 5 or more were likelier than singles to stock marshmallows, frosting, Mexican foods and breakfast foods. I guess those provided "stock options".

A plate's color can affect how much food we put on it. In a Good Morning America experiment 10 volunteers - half with white plates and half with red pates - served pasta marinara to one of the other volunteers. The volunteers with red plates put an average of 2 ounces more - 200 calories - on the plates. That would result in 2 extra pounds monthly and 24 extra pounds yearly. Because there was more color contrast with white plates, the serving size was more obvious and people took less food. It seems that plates can provide a "color scheme" for losing weight.

People are hungrier in the winter. A 1991 study done at the University of Georgia tracked how much and how fast people ate from season to season. Beginning in the fall the study subjects ate about 200 calories more a day. According to some researchers, this is due to primitive impulses that prompt us to stockpile extra calories and to eat them faster because there is less daylight. Other researchers attribute the extra calories to opportunity - to more holiday feasting, better leftovers, more grazing and less outside activity. It's up to you to decide which explanation "carries more weight".


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