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WHY IS IT THAT just an hour after eating a perfectly satisfactory meal we often fancy one more thing to eat? That extra piece of toast after breakfast, a chocolate biscuit after lunch – or anything we can find in the fridge after dinner. The urge to snack when we don’t need to eat can be controlled, says emerging research – and the answer lies in our choice of foods at main meals and tweaking our behaviour whenever we’re around food.