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From: "Alex Shvartsman" <[log in to unmask]>
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 > Many diet gurus say to drink a glass of water before eating to "fill up the
 > stomach" so you feel fuller and therefore eat less.

This is what my paternal grandmother and grandfather used to do before every
meal.  She lived to be 98 and he live to be 103.

Kath