Dessert Eating Tips

From Weekly I/O#67


Most of the pleasure in a dessert comes in the first three bites. After that, you should stop eating it. As a reward, you can eat dessert more often because you don’t binge it.

Article: 28 Pieces of Life Advice - David Perell

The first three bites of dessert are usually the best. After that, you should stop eating. This way, you can have dessert more often without overeating at once.

I hate wasting food, so I cannot follow this advice in practice. But a workaround to avoid getting hit by the diminishing marginal returns can be to share every dessert with others (or swallow every dessert in three bites).


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