Eat well and you will be less likely to gain weight? The answer is here...

Have you ever had a day like this...

Early in the morning, I was woken up by the alarm on my phone, and then I woke up unwillingly after snoozing for more than three times;

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I finally got up, fumbled around here and there, oh no, it was too late, so I just bought some breakfast and went to work. When I got to the company, I was immediately buried by a lot of work, and breakfast quietly turned into lunch or dinner.

The lunch break is not long, and there are not many good choices. If I want to eat something better, it is too expensive...

Forget it, just order a random lunch box and eat it quickly to catch up on your sleep!

Finally got off work, looked at the time on my phone... Haha, 19:30...

What should I eat? If I have a friend, I will go out for a good meal; if I am alone, I will just buy a lunch box or eat at a restaurant I often go to…

It’s holiday, so just sleep until you wake up naturally!

Wake up, have brunch together, and then go shopping or look for delicious food.

Day after day, year after year...

One day, I met a friend whom I hadn’t seen for years, and the first thing he said was, “You’ve gained weight!”

I think this should be a portrayal of the lives of most people living in modern times.

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Eating well is a kind of life, being fat is also

When our lives are filled with busyness, living a good life seems quite a luxury, and this includes eating. We become unable to eat at the right time, unable to get to know the ingredients ourselves, let alone cook them ourselves.

When we lost our lives, we also lost the mood and time to eat well. Due to long-term nutritional imbalance, we either gained weight or lost weight. Slowly, we began to develop some inexplicable diseases. We saw many doctors and tried many strange methods, but in the end, there was always no effect. So I could only tell myself fatalistically that this was my fate!

Relationship between diet quality and weight change

When talking to girls about losing weight, you can always keep talking about it endlessly, but in fact, as long as you eat well, perhaps the heat of this topic can be reduced a lot.

There is a study in the Journal of Nutrition that explores the relationship between diet quality and weight change. This is a very large study. The researchers collected data on the dietary content and weight changes of adult men, women and young women from three large American studies. The diet of all participants was assessed every four years, and their dietary scores were calculated using a computer based on the Mediterranean diet and the Deschamps diet. The higher the score, the closer it is to those dietary recommendations.

Both the Mediterranean diet and the Deschutes diet emphasize the intake of fruits, vegetables, whole grains and nuts. In other words, the presence of these foods in your daily diet can improve the quality of your diet.

The results found that for every one standard deviation increase in diet quality scores, there was significantly less weight gain over a four-year period, and this was more pronounced in young women and overweight people.

Why is the result "reduced weight gain?": After we become adults, our basal metabolic rate basically decreases as we age. We eat the same thing every day, but our weight will slowly increase.

Changes in weight not only reflect your diet, but may also show what kind of life you are living now. In today's society, it may take some courage to live a good life.

So how can we eat to get good food quality? Please refer to the Mediterranean diet guidelines suitable for Taiwanese eating patterns.

This article is from Nutrition

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