Can the chocolate temptation be held at bay? [Article]

Researcher Nicola Buckland discovers evidence that smelling oranges can do the trick:

She asked women to smell fresh oranges and chocolate. Later, she told them to help themselves to the aromatic fruit and chocolate treats. It turns out that women in the study who were trying to diet ate about 60 percent less chocolate after smelling the oranges (compared with how much they ate after smelling the chocolate).

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