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A peck does not a tire make
November 12, 2009
The You Docs
Q Recently, one of my co-workers said that eating too much fruit can make you gain weight because of its high sugar content. Is this true?
A Not unless you eat two or three large watermelons or a peck of apples on top of a regular day's worth of food. You would have to stay pretty darn determined about fruit eating to do any real damage to your waistline. To gain a pound from fruit alone, you would have to eat about 54 apples, 875 strawberries or 18 cantaloupes. And while it's true that 100 extra calories a day can leave you 10 pounds heavier at the end of a year, chances are that most people's weight gain comes from piling on foods that aren't fruit. Fruit is full of water, fibre, polyphenols, vitamins and minerals, and it puts a lot of bulk in your belly for not a lot of calories. That makes it a diet buddy, not diet saboteur.
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