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Which Is Better Fruit Or Veg For Weight Loss? | Nutritionist Explains | Myprotein
Feb 8, 2025
Expert nutritionist explains whether fruit or veg is better for weight loss.
Weight loss is challenging enough without the confusion that seemingly never ends when it comes to what we should put in our mouth. In this video, Jamie Wright, an accredited nutritionist, discusses which team is more suited for weight loss - fruit or veg - the benefits, and whether or not we need to be concerned with the natural sugar content, you find in fruits.
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Chapters:
00:00 - Fruit v Veg intro
00:40 - Weight loss
02:27 - Gut health
03:36 - Which is best?
05:22 - Sugar
06:19 - Verdict
06:42 - Any more food questions?
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what's better for weight loss fruit or
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veg keep watching this video to find out
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hi I'm Jimmy Wright an accredited
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nutritionist and I specialize in helping
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people all across the world achieve
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their goals without any silly fad diets
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weight loss is challenging enough
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without the confusion that seemingly
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never ends when it comes to what we
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should put in our mouth
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one ongoing battle is between team fruit
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and team veg in this video I'll be
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discussing which team is more suited for
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weight loss the benefits and whether or
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not we need to be concerned with the
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natural sugar content that you will find
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in fruits before stating who may be the
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best of the two options it's important
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to answer the question does fruit or veg
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help with weight loss well the short
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answer to that is most likely yes
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large-scale studies show that those with
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a higher intake of plants tend to manage
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and or achieve a healthy weight
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significantly better than those with a
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lower intake what's also interesting is
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that having a higher intake of plants
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seemingly prevents weight gain which is
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a major problem in weight loss research
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additionally data generally shows that a
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plant-based diet approach like veganism
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is a really effective means of achieving
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weight loss and sustaining it there are
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a number of reasons as to why plants may
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be so effective at supporting the goal
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of weight loss volumetrics and satiety
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volumetrics is a style of dieting that
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had a boom in the early 2000s and once
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again in the 2010s it's an approach to
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weight loss is choosing to eat more
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foods which are less calorie dense but
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provide more actual food volume
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essentially you're getting more food for
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the same amount of calories if not
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slightly lower the goal of the
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volumetric diet is to make us feel as
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satiated as possible in practice it
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would be like swapping out a tub of
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Smarties with a faux watermelon which do
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you think is going to make you feel
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Fuller volumetrics is a pretty effective
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approach in its own right and it's one
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of the key mechanisms suggested by
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researchers for why we see these
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improved weight loss outcomes in the
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higher plant intake populations
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what are they replacing another possible
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reason for the weight loss success
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attached to eating more plants is simply
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the foods that the plants are replacing
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in your diet namely the foods which are
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higher in energy higher in fats added
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sugars and of a greater degree of
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processing basically less nutritious
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foods which we shouldn't restrict
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ourselves from necessarily but maybe not
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have as often as we currently are this
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would include the likes of chocolate
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cakes biscuits takeaway meals pizzas Etc
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it's fairly well established that having
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less nutritious Foods in your diet
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leaves you at a greater risk of weight
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gain and increases your risk of obesity
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the impact plants have on the gut plants
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can have a transformative effect on our
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gut microbiota for the better I don't
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just mean that for weight loss but I
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mean that more generally across the
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board a greater intake of plants is
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associated with a more diverse and
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densely populated gut microbiota this is
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a good thing by the way as greater
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microbiota diversity is associated with
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the lower BMI scores as well as a
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reduced risk of obesity the gut has
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often been described as the second brain
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and one really cool way in which it
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helps with weight loss is called the
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second meal effect lots of seconds here
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the second meal effect is described as
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the phenomenon by which the first major
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consumed at an earlier time suppresses
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one's appetite during a later meal this
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effect leads to reduced caloric intake
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and improved control of our blood sugar
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insulin sensitivity and increased energy
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expenditure speaking of blood glucose
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higher plant intakes can also improve
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insulin sensitivity increased insulin
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sensitivity and of itself May directly
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impact body weight for instance those
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who are insulin resistance may have
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reduced energy expenditure when eating
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due to their impaired glucose handling
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so improving our blood glucose control
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and insulin sensitivity through a more
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plant-based diet may increase energy
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expenditure in this way too
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Fruit versus veg alright so either way
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having more plants in your diet be it
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fruit or veg is seemingly beneficial for
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weight loss sustaining weight loss and
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maintaining healthy weight but is one
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better than the other well no not
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necessarily one of the major Arguments
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for veg over fruit is the sugar content
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of fruit and while that is a fair point
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to make it doesn't seem to make all that
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much difference in the actual weight
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loss outcomes for instance one review
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paper which looked at a whole range of
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studies just involving vegetables and
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their impact on weight loss find that
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unsurprisingly increasing vegetable
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consumption resulted in weight loss the
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researchers also find that increased
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vegetable intake was also associated
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with a reduced risk of weight gain or
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obesity in a separate review paper which
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also looked at a whole range of studies
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but this time involving just whole fruit
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found virtually the same outcomes but
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the devil's in the detail here and there
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is one caveat as to why people believe
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veggies Trump fruit when it comes to
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weight loss the first being fruit namely
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smoothies and fruit drinks contain both
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huge amounts of sugars as well as
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calories these beverages aren't great in
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all honesty and there's an entire
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spectrum of them in terms of the quality
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as well as the nutrient content that you
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have to contend with
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while there may be some small weight
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gain associations experts suggest that
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if you are going to opt for a juice
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always go for 100 option not from
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concentrate as it appears to have
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minimal risk associations for other
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adverse health conditions it's also
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important that you adjust your intake to
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compensate for the liquid calories
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that's a mistake many make on their
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weight loss Journey they eat their
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regular intake on top of the liquid
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calories they consume if you're on a
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weight loss journey and the skills
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aren't moving this is a really good
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thing to bear in mind the second issue
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the fruit feeders have is that they
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believe fructose is the culprit for
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weight gain
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fructose is a naturally occurring sugar
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found in fruit but it's also made its
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way into the world of ultra processed
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foods in the form of high fructose corn
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syrup the problem with fructose is that
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it doesn't seem to provide the same
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satiating effect as other forms of
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carbohydrate which would explain why at
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least in part you find that those people
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who have fructose Rich liquid calories
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will often not compensate in their other
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areas of their diet for that energy
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intake but you know what that's a lot of
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she had thrown in Fruit but veggies
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aren't perfect either you know in fact
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data shows that increased intakes of
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starchier carbs like potatoes peas and
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corn may actually contribute to some
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weight gain
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and that pains me to put corn out there
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because for me
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I really like corn I mean it's a big
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lump with knobs and it has the juice
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honestly I can't imagine a more
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beautiful thing
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ultimately both veggies and fruit are
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great for you if your goal is to lose
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weight sustain any weight loss or
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achieve a healthy weight or just
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maintain the weight that you're at yes
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there are some that you have to be wary
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of but you can of course include those
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within a healthy balanced diet just like
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everything else neither is better
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they're both great
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the corn is the best I can tell you all
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about it everything will change as
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always if you have any more questions or
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even advice for other viewers just like
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you let me know in the comments below
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