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Why eating more fruit and veg doesn’t always help you
lose weight
Increasing your intake of plant-based food shouldn’t
lead to weight gain – unless you only eat starchy foods or forget to cut down on
your calories
Will eating more fruit and vegetables make me thin?
Want to get thin? Eat more fruit and vegetables – they’re a low-calorie way of
filling up, right? The health site WebMD has “eat more fruit and vegetables” as
one of its “22 best diet tips ever” and the next US Dietary Guidelines are
likely to push a “healthy Mediterranean-style diet”, big on plant-based food, to
avoid more people becoming super-sized. But dietary advice being notoriously
fickle, a research paper in this month’s PLOS Medicine says that eating more
fruit and vegetables doesn’t necessarily help weight loss: it depends which ones
you eat. Eating starchy vegetables such as corn and potatoes (boiled, mashed or
baked – the amount of butter added unknown) was linked to weight gain. Eating
more high-fibre, lower-glycemic vegetables such as broccoli and brussels sprouts
was associated with weight loss. Lower-glycemic foods do not raise blood sugar
levels as much as higher ones. So should you stick to non-starchy vegetables and
is most fruit still a slimming aid?
The solution
The study, from Harvard University, looked at changes in the intake of specific
fruit and vegetables recorded in the dietary questionnaires of 133,468 US men
and women over 24 years. It took into account other lifestyle factors that
affect weight, such as smoking, amount of sleep, hours watching television and
exercise. Dr Monica L Bertoia, the lead author, says that, in America, the most
common choices of fruit and vegetables are orange juice and potatoes. “There are
many fruits and vegetables that may be better choices for the prevention of
weight gain, such as apples, pears, berries and non-starchy vegetables,” she
says.
The idea of eating more fruit and vegetables to lose weight only works if you
eat less of something else – all calories count. A study last year from the
University of Alabama, looking at previous research on weight loss and increased
fruit and vegetable intake in more than 1,200 people, found that people who
didn’t reduce their calorie intake overall did not lose weight.
Different fruit and vegetables have different characteristics – lower-glycemic
foods cause fewer and smaller blood sugar spikes and may reduce hunger. So if
you want high-fibre, low-glycemic fruit, go for blueberries and avocados.
Strawberries are low on fibre but good on the low-glycemic scale, as is
grapefruit – unless you pour sugar on it. Pears and apples came out well, even
though they have a high-glycemic index – their higher fibre may compensate. For
vegetables, try sprouts (without crispy bacon), broccoli, tofu, cauliflower and
sweet potatoes or yams rather than potatoes. But remember, they all still have
calories.
https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2015/oct/04/eating-more-fruit-and-veg-doesnt-always-help-you-lose-weight