What can you use to lose weight? Scientists have long beena detailed list of the food eaten and the calculation of calories received with it. The records help to calculate the causes of excess weight and develop a more correct diet. Now experts offer a more effective method - a photographic diary. As an experiment, scientists from the University of Wisconsin-Madison suggested 43 people who want to lose weight to photograph everything they eat. Unlike keeping a diary, photographing food is possible only before eating, which allows you to create a more complete and truthful impression of the dish, as well as make you think again about what we eat before putting it in your mouth. Thus, photographing draws a person's attention to food at the right time - before eating. In addition, the process itself vividly and clearly demonstrates food, thereby reminding about the harm of certain products. As a result, people were forced to find healthier products, which helped them lose weight. Thus, photographing food prompted all participants in the experiment to find healthier alternatives to nutrition. And their typical response was: 'I should have been more careful about what I was about to eat because I had to take a picture of it.' The study was published in New Scientist magazine. Based on materials from Telegraph.co.uk.