failure-proofing behavior. Think of them as insurance against the weaknesses of human nature--your weaknesses, my weaknesses, our weaknesses: 1. Make it conscious. 2. Make it a game. 3. Make it competitive. 4. Make it small and temporary. 1. MAKE IT CONSCIOUS: FLASHING AND "BEFORE" PHOTOS The fastest way to correct a behavior is to be aware of it in real time, not after-the-fact. The curious case of the so-called " ash diet" is a prime example of the di erence. Dr. Lydia Zepeda and David Deal of the University of WisconsinMadison enlisted 43 subjects to photograph all of their meals or snacks prior to eating. Unlike food diaries, which require time- consuming entries often written long after eating, the photographs acted as an instantaneous intervention and forced people to consider their choices before the damage was done. In the words of one participant: "I was less likely to have a jumbo bag of M&Ms. It curbed my choices.
lowed by washing with temperate water and and Salmonella, respectively, compared lactic acid rinse (USDA-FSIS 2008c). with washing or trimming alone. This study Other potential decontaminants tested, formed the research hypothesis on sequential with limited effectiveness, include gluconic decontamination interventions. Then, Graves acid at 1.5% and 3% (Garcia Zepeda et al. Delmore et al. (1998) validated the concept Meat Decontamination 67 by testing the efficacy of multiple spray- (Koutsoumanis et al. 2004). Likewise, washing/rinsing treatments in the laboratory Castillo et al. (1998c, 1999a) found fewer utilizing warm/hot water and/or acetic acid beef carcasses with Enterobacteriaceae
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