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Coronavirus diets: What's behind the urge to eat like little kids?

  • Written by Carli Liguori, Instructor of Nutrition and Behavior Change, University of Pittsburgh
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Have you noticed grabbing an extra bag of chips at the supermarket? Or eating more frozen dinners than you used to? Or even eating snacks that you haven’t eaten since you were a little kid?

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