Chips, potatoes and soft drinks are the biggest fatteners
A fight with kilos who doesn't suffer from it? Especially in Thailand with all that range of food. You could start cutting out certain foods, such as potato chips, potatoes, and soda. Including yogurt, nuts, and fruits in your diet increases your chances of losing weight.
This is what Harvard Medical School epidemiologist Dariush Mozaffarian writes in the New England Journal of Medicine.
Study
Mozaffarian drew his data from three studies involving more than 120.000 American men and women. In those studies, health care workers have been followed intensively for years. The scientist was able to calculate how much the average participant gained weight over a period of four years – and which eating and lifestyle habits were associated with weight gain.
Results
Every 4 years, the average participant gained 1.5 kg in weight. Each serving of crisps per day resulted in a 4-year weight gain of 0.76 kg, each daily serving of potatoes for a weight gain of 0.58 kg, each serving of soft drinks for a weight gain of 0.45 kg and each serving of frankfurters, luncheon meats and other processed meats for a weight gain of 0.42kg. Participants with a lot of yogurt, nuts, fruit and vegetables in their diet, on the other hand, stayed slim more easily. Those products actually promoted a decrease in body weight.
Chips, potatoes and soft drinks are the biggest fatteners
Exercise was a slimming factor, but not a very big one. The weight gain of men and women who exercised the most was less than a kilo less than the men and women who exercised the least.
Obesity is apparently mainly the result of eating too much and much less the result of too little exercise.
The single biggest fattening factor that Mozaffarian discovered was actually quitting smoking. Stoppers become 4 kg heavier in 2.3 years.
Conclusion
“Our findings suggest that both individual and population-based strategies to help people consume fewer calories may be most effective when particular foods and beverages are targeted for decreased (or increased) consumption.”
Source: Ergogenics – N Engl J Med. 2011 Jun 23;364(25):2392-404.
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The fact that the potato is designated as a fattener on the basis of this study is not just right: the study does not distinguish between deep-fried and differently prepared variants. It should be clear that fried potatoes (but also other foods that are fried) are less healthy, so it is a pity that such an important distinction was not included in this study.
Potatoes that are boiled, stir-fried or prepared in the oven can be perfectly consumed in a responsible diet and have been labeled more and more as healthy and responsible in recent years: for example, you get fewer carbohydrates than with an equal portion of rice or pasta… There are also concerns potatoes for a good source of vitamin C, fiber and give them a long feeling of satiety.
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Bread also seems not to be allowed according to diet people who write wonderful books. Rice is bad for the intestines of a Westerner. The cartons of fruit juice are also in the defendant's bench. What we can eat is sometimes quite a challenge if I can believe all the advice. I've already lost quite a few kilos and I had to give up alcohol and eat less fruit because of the sugars. For the rest everything with sizes and a little more movement. A flight also allows you to temporarily 'lose weight'
That's right, you shouldn't eat bread either because that is the largest salt intake of all your food. And the fruit juice packs contain more sugar than fruit. I just don't drink red wine instead of beer. not bothered by anything. 😉
“Getting fat is apparently mainly the result of eating too much and much less the result of not exercising enough”.
This is the only sentence in the story that makes sense. Just eat less and whoever says: "But I already eat so little" should write down what he / she eats all day long and don't forget the snacks. A biscuit with your coffee, a glass of cola and just another glass, crisps with your drink and, as a good Thai habit, a snack of rice before going to sleep late in the evening. I don't even count beer, wine or any other drink. People will be surprised!
Totally agree Gringo! Every pound goes through the mouth. Read the book Lose Weight For Dummies! Potatoes are not bad and neither is bread. The bottom line is: Do you eat 5 potatoes with thick gravy or do you eat 6 slices of bread with chocolate spread or do you stick to 1 potato with lots of vegetables and one chicken breast or 2 slices of bread with smoked meat or roast beef? 1500 kilocalories per day (believe me is a lot) and you lose 1 kg per week. Nice and healthy and slow AND no hunger!
In the end, it all comes down to a simple equation: taking in more calories than you burn leads to weight gain. You can forget about the rest of the regularly changing and often completely contradictory advice.
Also interesting with regard to the effects of eating less vs. move more: http://www.volkskrant.nl/wetenschap/dieet-helpt-beter-bij-afvallen-dan-lichamelijke-inspanning~a4236376/