From the Wall St. Journal, reporting which includes a study that says:
There is research to show how irresistible the candy dish can be. A four-week study of 40 secretaries found that when candy was visible in a clear, covered dish, participants ate 2.5 pieces of chocolate on top of the 3.1 candies they would have eaten had the chocolates been in an opaque container, according to the 2006 study in the International Journal of Obesity. Moving the dish closer, so the subjects could reach the candy while seated at their desks, added another 2.1 candies a day to their intake.
Some of the things I deeply appreciate about yoga are the Yama's and the Niyama's. While yoga is an intensely internal practice, the Yama's and Niyama's direct us to change our actions in the world. They suggest to us that meditation and a realization of our spiritual nature are easier to achieve when we set up our world so that it stops knocking us down.
Of course we can just stop choosing to eat the candy (if that's what we want); of course we can just stop seeing candy as bad...or we can simply remove it from our sight.
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