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Simple answer, yes; fruits and vegetables are absolutely important for weight loss, and more importantly for keeping the weight off.

I’m not just telling you this because my mom always told me that fruits and vegetables are good, there’s actually a lot of science behind it.

Consumer reports recently surveyed 21,632 readers about their excercise, eating, and dieting habits over their whole life and asked for their weight loss / weight gain over that time period. Although a lucky 3% of readers said they ate what they wanted, didn’t excercise, and were not overweight; the general trend was much different. In order to keep weight off, most readers said they excercised, practiced portion control, and ate lots of fruit and vegetables. A very intriguing finding of the study was that about half of the people who had been fit their whole life, or had successfully maintained weight loss, ate five or more servings of fruits and vegetables atleast five times a week. If your mom ever told you that fruits and veggies would keep you healthy, she was right!

So, why are vegetables so important for a healthy diet (just a few of the reasons):

• They are packed with nutrients, vitamins, minerals, etc.  that no other foods will provide! You won’t get antioxidants from a bag of cookies.
• They are high in volume and low in calories. They fill your stomach up without filling you with calories
• Basically, you can find thousands of studies about how this vegetable prevents this disease or that cancer, but the bottom line is that fruits and vegetables just provide your body with what it needs to function best.

So head down to a farmer’s market, or to a local grocery store and buy some fruits and vegetables. They taste great and will help you throw off the weight!