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ginamcy
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Does specific type of food help you lose weight
ginamcy
Member Posts: 74 Member
Member Posts: 74 Member
I belive it does! Its not how many times you eat than what you eat a person that will eat once a day but fast food like french fies and hamburger and a person that will eat 3 times a day but will eat chicken breast without frying or broccoli tuna fish exc will most likely lose weight or be in better forming shape then the other person... or some people eat whatever they want without gaining any weight but having health problems
Agree or disagree???
Agree or disagree???
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Disagree.
http://www.cnn.com/2010/HEALTH/11/08/twinkie.diet.professor/
and
http://abc7.com/health/teacher-loses-60-pounds-while-eating-nothing-but-mcdonalds/705916/
As long as you hit your calorie goals and any other personal nutrition goals you need to reach then you should lose weight.
Shouldn't this be on the Nutrition Debate forum?
If a person eats foods like french fries and hamburger in a calorie deficit, they're going to lose weight. If they eat more than they burn, they're going to gain weight -- even if it is foods like chicken, broccoli, and tuna.
Some foods may make it easier for us to reach a deficit (If I eat a cinnamon roll for breakfast, I will be hungry again quickly. If I eat beans and rice for breakfast, I stay full for hours), but it's the deficit that creates weight weight -- not the foods that we're eating or not eating.
Oh thanx for the correction
"Epidemiological research on fruit and vegetables and cancer then increased rapidly, and by 1992, a review of 156 studies concluded that ‘for most cancer sites, persons with low fruit and vegetable intake experience about twice the risk of cancer compared to those with a high intake, even after control for potentially confounding factors' (Block et al, 1992)."
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3039795/
How will you burn more calories than you consume? I dont think that eating whatever you want and excercizing will do the trick or be enough
My body burns 2200 calories a day (my calculated TDEE based on basic formulas and my own tracking). If I eat less than 2200 calories a day, I'm eating less than I burn/burning more than I eat.
Wait, is this thread about weight loss or how to best avoid cancer?
Wearing sunscreen also helps you avoid cancer, by the way. I think that is about as relevant to OP's question.
Agree: type of food will make a difference in your satiety = greater success in your weight loss journey
this is a very basic take on it of course
OP, I eat what I want (which is sometimes french fries and sometimes broccoli) and exercise and it's enough for me. I reached my goal and am comfortably maintaining my weight loss. There are many people on this website with similar experiences.
"or some people eat whatever they want without gaining any weight but having health problems"
The trick is you can eat whatever you want, but not necessarily as much and as often you'd want if you were eating with no care for the consequences. Instead, any person can generally fit an acceptable amount of at least any one food into their daily allotment and still meet a calorie goal for the day.
I got fat eating whatever I wanted. I got thin eating less of whatever I wanted, and now I'm gaining lean mass eating whatever I want, in monitored portions.
My blood tests and general health (including my diet) are all doctor approved.
So, tl;dr... I disagree.
*Edited for spelling
+1
Is there some kind of common misconception that if you have health problems it must be because you overeat or eat the wrong things (or both)? There are so many other reasons to have health issues.