5 Foods That Make You Fat and Not Make You Fat

Prevent weight gain causing obesity is very possible, especially with controlling food intake. The study found there are five foods that can and can not make you fat. What?

A study conducted by researchers from Harvard School of Public Health found that reducing the intake of certain foods, sleeping 6 to 8 hours each night, exercise enough and turn off the television, can help reduce weight.

Researchers also found five foods were strongly associated with body weight and five other food-related weight loss on average.

"The message here that the type and quality of food and drink is very important," said Dariush Mozaffarian, MD, DrPH, associate professor of medicine and epidemiology at Harvard School of Public Health, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, as reported by WebMD, Saturday (06/24/2011).

In this study, researchers studied 120,000 participants for 4 years. Mozaffarian said that this new study shows how some lifestyle factors, including diet associated with weight loss long term.

The study found there are 5 types of foods that most weight gain and vice versa 5 foods that most can not gain weight, namely:

Foods that are most able to raise the weight

     potato chips
     Other processed potato
     sugary drinks
     Red meat is not processed
     processed meat

Foods that are least able to raise the weight

     vegetable
     Cereals
     Fruits
     Nuts
     yogurt


The study results were published in the New England Journal of Medicine.