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The holiday season is coming and with it all the guilty delights of a traditional festive diet. But if you want to fend off the flab, pushing thoughts of mince pies out of your mind might be counterproductive: indulging thoughts of eating a particular food may help us to eat less of the real thing.

IF YOU want to lose weight, convince yourself that everything you eat is highly calorific. It could lower your levels of a hunger hormone, potentially suppressing your appetite. Alia Crum at Yale University and her colleagues gave 46 healthy volunteers the same 380-calorie milkshake but were told it was either a sensible, low-calorie choice or an indulgent, high-calorie one. The team also measured levels of ghrelin - a hormone released by the stomach when we are hungry - before and after participants drank the shake. Ghrelin levels have been shown to spike half an hour before mealtimes and return to normal after eating. Volunteers who thought they had indulged showed significantly greater drops in ghrelin levels than those who thought they had consumed less. The authors suggest that merely thinking that one has eaten something unhealthy can quell hunger pangs and perhaps help curb overeating (Health Psychology, DOI: 10.1037/a0023467). The study shows that food labels can affect consumption in unexpected ways, says David Cummings, an endocrinologist at the University of Washington in Seattle.

When we talk about a Lemon detox the one word that comes to our mind is refreshing! The lemon water detox can be rated as one of the best cleansing diets. A few glasses of lemon juice can help prevent those hunger pangs that keep troubling you. This detox drink also improves digestion by detoxifying your system. Our day is filled with various activities that sap your energy levels; this is where a lovely glass of lemon juice can do the trick by boosting your energy.