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Healthy Eating: Strategies for Eating Alone1

Emily Minton2

Eating alone may not always be our first choice, but there are many ways to make eating alone more enjoyable. Examples include listening to music or a book on tape, watching television, calling a friend or family member, choosing pleasant lighting, or eating outside in the fresh air.

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Try eating outside in the fresh air.


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Footnotes

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This document is FCS80016, one of a series of the Department of Family, Youth and Community Sciences, Florida Cooperative Extension Service, Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences, University of Florida. Original publication date March 2012. Visit the EDIS website at http://edis.ifas.ufl.edu.

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Emily Minton, B. S., former ENAFS program coordinator, Department of Family, Youth and Community Sciences, Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL 32611.

The Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences (IFAS) is an Equal Opportunity Institution authorized to provide research, educational information and other services only to individuals and institutions that function with non-discrimination with respect to race, creed, color, religion, age, disability, sex, sexual orientation, marital status, national origin, political opinions or affiliations. For more information on obtaining other extension publications, contact your county Cooperative Extension service.

U.S. Department of Agriculture, Cooperative Extension Service, University of Florida, IFAS, Florida A. & M. University Cooperative Extension Program, and Boards of County Commissioners Cooperating. Nick T. Place, Dean.