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Remember how your parents always told you not to munch before meal time?

Eating a snack before supper will "spoil your dinner."

Turns out, at least according to one doctor, it's a good idea to spoil your dinner. 

In the book "You on a Diet: The Owner's Manual for Waist Management," a 70 calorie or fewer snack - a handful of nuts, a few slices of avocado, a spoonful of sugar, er, peanut butter, will activate ghrelin, a hormone that tells you when you are full = spoil your dinner.

Gobble them up a short time before dinner and you will think you are fuller sooner. 

Of course, you still need to eat your dinner...starting with the veggies

Then when you fill up sooner...don't make up for it by heading for the junk food an hour or so later and an hour or so before bed time.

Gee, who would have thought mom's advice in this case was wrong?

Perhaps the strategy is not recommended for kids.