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Fruit is always a healthy food source. However, they can completely become the cause of weight gain if you eat them inappropriately.1. Does eating fruit make you fat?
According to the Nutrition Counseling Center - National Institute of Nutrition, fruit is an important source of vitamins and minerals in the diet of each person. Because fruits are eaten directly without cooking, they retain their vitamin and mineral content. In particular, fruit contains a rich source of fiber, which is good for health as well as keeping in shape and losing weight of many women. Therefore, some people always believe that eating a lot of fruit will not get fat. Even people who are overweight and obese choose to skip rice and replace it with fruit to lose weight. However, this action makes the weight not only not decrease, but also increase. Because not all fruits have weight loss effects, especially ripe fruits.
So what are the fruits that increase weight? The most ripe fruits, the sweet ones, will contain high sugar content. When eaten a lot, these fruits also provide the body with a large source of energy. For example, if you eat two 100g-type pepper bananas, the energy will be the same as eating a bowl of rice, or eating a custard apple or a mango of 200-250g, eating 300g of jackfruit, or litchi, longan, it is also equivalent. with 1 bowl of rice. So if you do not eat rice and eat a lot of these sweet fruits instead, you will still gain weight, of course.
2. What kind of fruit to eat to lose fat?
If you want to lose weight or keep in shape, you should eat fruits with low sugar content such as cucumbers, tubers, grapefruit, dragon fruit, jujubes, pears, oranges, tangerines... In which, melons Rats and grapefruit also have the effect of reducing fat, reducing excess fat in the blood.
Cucumbers and beans can also be used as food for people who are overweight and obese and have a habit of snacking. These tubers and fruits have very low energy, the main component is water, providing the body with a lot of fiber, vitamins and minerals.
Especially, in the hot summer, overweight and obese people, diabetics should not eat a lot of fruits such as jackfruit, pineapple, mango, litchi, longan; Because these fruits contain high sugar content, providing a lot of energy, if eaten in large quantities, will cause the risk of being overweight or obese or increase blood sugar.
On the other hand, some people who have a hot body or have pimples and heat rash should limit the consumption of these fruits. High blood sugar is a favorable environment for bacteria to grow, especially staphylococcus, which is the cause of boils and impetigo.
Every day we should only eat from 400-500 g of ripe fruit, use a variety of different fruits to provide enough vitamins and minerals for the body, provide enough fiber to help prevent constipation. need to take medication.
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