Fruits and vegetables help to lose weight

Do not think that consists of a large number of fruit and vegetable diet can trick your body and make it generally eat less. In some cases, fruits and vegetables only increase hunger.

For example, if you drink a glass of fruit juice before the main meal, it really enhance the feeling of hunger, which ultimately could lead to a raise   overweight . So the theory of the need to "fill" a lot of stomach fruits and vegetables   for satiety itself does not justify. This is the conclusion, researchers from Purdue University in Indiana.

They found that many months following a diet containing large amounts of fruits and vegetables , Does not help people to curb hunger and strengthen the feeling of satiety. So people often confuse a feeling of thirst with hunger, trying to extinguish it with a fruit juice. As a result, on average, they during subsequent meals prepared at 100 calories more.

34 volunteers suffering from either overweight Or obesity, within two months of regularly consumed fruit juice, as part of their diet. As a result, they are added for the period of about 2 to 5 kg. And the most "heavy" volunteers got better even in those cases when their diet consisted of more servings of fruits and vegetables.

However, the replacement of fruit juice 400-500 calories from fresh fruit and vegetables does not affect the feeling of satiety between meals dishes. Researchers believe that the dietitian is especially important to inspire people to think about the need to be careful diet, except that any amount of fruits and vegetables definitely helpful.

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