Word: self-restraint
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...second study, Lumeng found a similar association between the inability to delay gratification in 4-year-olds (again with favorite foods) and weight gain by age 11. Of the 805 children in the study, 47% had trouble with self-restraint; those kids were 30% more likely to be overweight seven years later, compared with other children in the study. The findings indicate that learning self-control may be an important way for children to manage their weight - a logical theory, familiar to anyone who has struggled with self-discipline and impulse regulation to keep from packing on the pounds...
Every once in a while, I’ll pick up something in the supermarket, check the number of calories, and have enough self-restraint to put it back. Thanks to the FDA, every package of food is clearly labeled with nutrition facts, making it easy to balance the benefits of a tasty treat with the calorie count needed to keep my beach...
...looks like beyond her fair skin, though we know every detail of Edward's luminous looks. She is brave and loyal but not rich or cool, and yet she is the object of passionate devotion by the hottest boy in school - who, as it happens, must exercise constant self-restraint around...
...normal teenage drama into such high relief that the picture is suddenly clearer. The stakes in Edward and Bella's world really are life or death; if things go wrong, your heart could get broken - or your veins opened. Loyalty may require risking your life; betrayal could cost it. Self-restraint takes superhuman control. It's exhausting but cathartic to take one's own first experience of love or jealousy or loss and blow it up wide-screen, cue the music, roll the thunder...
Shoppers are migrating to the Web for a variety of reasons. Rising financial anxiety and tight credit availability are making holiday shopping this year an exercise in self-restraint, and the Web offers a quick, clean shot at purchasing 24 hours a day. Moreover, with websites like FatWallet and SlickDeals featuring bargain-basement prices, hunting around for the best value is a convenient mouse click away. That's an easier proposition for many than slogging to the mall and fighting traffic, crowds and parking problems. "Comparison-shopping online dwarfs what you can do in the real world," says Nita Rollins...