Some fruits & vegetables are better for your waistline
Sep-24-2015

Eating more fruits - particularly berries, apples and pears - and nonstarchy vegetables, like soybeans and cauliflower, may help you lose weight over the long term, a new study suggests.

However, adding starchy vegetables like peas, potatoes and corn to your diet may not be as good for your waistline: People who increased their consumption of these vegetables gained weight over time, the study found.

"Unfortunately, most Americans have inadequate fruit and vegetable intake," but when they do eat these foods, they may be consuming too much fruit juice and potatoes, the researchers said. Therefore, "nutritional guidelines ought to emphasize individual or subgroups of specific fruits and vegetables that maximize the potential for weight maintenance and disease prevention," they said.

In the study, researchers at the Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health in Boston analyzed information from more than 130,000 U.S. adults who were followed for more than two decades as part of several large, long-running studies of health professionals. Every four years, the participants were mailed a survey and kept track of the foods they ate each day for a week. They also reported their weight every two years.

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