<p>Researchers from Harvard School of Public Health found that the more good food in one’s diet, the more weight one loses over the long term.<br /><br />To maintain a slim figure, the researchers said, it is much more important to concentrate on eating healthy food rather than fixating on how much one consumes, the Daily Telegraph reported.<br /><br />Their study of almost 1,20,000 people, five-sixths of whom were women, discovered that extra helpings of yoghurt, nuts, fruit, whole grains and vegetables were all linked to weight loss.<br /><br />The team quantified the effect that eating particular types of food daily had on weight gain or loss. Perhaps surprisingly, eating more yoghurt and nuts every day had a bigger effect on losing weight than fruits and vegetables — probably because they keep people fuller for longer.<br /><br />They found that people who ate an extra portion of yoghurt daily, compared to the study group as a whole, lost on average 0.37kg every four years, over a 20 year period.<br />For nuts the comparable figure was 0.26kg, for fruits 0.22kg, for whole grains 0.17kg and for vegetables 0.1kg.<br /><br />The authors, led by Prof Dariush Mozaffarian, noted that this did not mean people could simply eat large amounts of these foods and lose weight.</p>
<p>Researchers from Harvard School of Public Health found that the more good food in one’s diet, the more weight one loses over the long term.<br /><br />To maintain a slim figure, the researchers said, it is much more important to concentrate on eating healthy food rather than fixating on how much one consumes, the Daily Telegraph reported.<br /><br />Their study of almost 1,20,000 people, five-sixths of whom were women, discovered that extra helpings of yoghurt, nuts, fruit, whole grains and vegetables were all linked to weight loss.<br /><br />The team quantified the effect that eating particular types of food daily had on weight gain or loss. Perhaps surprisingly, eating more yoghurt and nuts every day had a bigger effect on losing weight than fruits and vegetables — probably because they keep people fuller for longer.<br /><br />They found that people who ate an extra portion of yoghurt daily, compared to the study group as a whole, lost on average 0.37kg every four years, over a 20 year period.<br />For nuts the comparable figure was 0.26kg, for fruits 0.22kg, for whole grains 0.17kg and for vegetables 0.1kg.<br /><br />The authors, led by Prof Dariush Mozaffarian, noted that this did not mean people could simply eat large amounts of these foods and lose weight.</p>
