Clutter makes you fat! If your house is a mess, the chances are your eating habits are too, says a new book | Mail Online

Clutter makes you fat! If your house is a mess, the chances are your eating habits are too, says a new book | Mail Online

Surveying her kitchen, Josie feels like screaming. Sunday’s papers and a load of junk mail are still strewn across her table. No one’s unloaded the dishwasher. Her son’s guitar, minus three strings, is cluttering up the doorway, and her husband has dumped his toolbox on the work surface again.

Josie, a busy primary school teacher, smiles ruefully as she surveys the all too familiar scene of devastation.

What happens next will also be terribly easy to recognise. Confronted by this avalanche of clutter, Josie gives up on cooking dinner and nips out to get a takeaway instead.