Answer from our Nutrition & Diet expert:

Eating too much of anything will cause weight gain or prevent weight loss. Fruits and vegetables, which are higher in water and fiber and lower in calories than other foods, are less likely to cause weight gain or prevent weight loss, as you would have to eat much larger portions to consume too many calories.

However, fruit has almost three times the calories per serving as nonstarchy vegetables, so it is easier to consume too many fruit calories, which can interfere with weight loss. I frequently see patients who think of fruit as a "free food" and are unknowingly consuming up to 250 extra calories a day, which could prevent them from losing one pound of fat every two weeks!

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It's time for a new slim-down funda: Eat more to weigh less. Eating the right foods help you shed weight by 10 superfoods for shedding weight (Getty Images).

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1. Steak : Contrary to popular perception, eating a beef stake may help you drop weight. In a study published in The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, women on a diet that included red meat lost more weight than those eating equal calories but little beef. The protein in steak helps you retain muscle mass during weight loss.

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Having an apple every day is even more important for a healthy diet than previously thought, suggests a new It’s official: An apple a day, keeps the doctor away (Getty Images)
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Researchers at the Institute of Food Research in Norwich discovered that the levels of a key antioxidant was previously underestimated in the properties of fruits such as apples, peaches and nectarines.

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Asthma and allergic bouts have considerably increased during the last couple of years. The Asthma statistics indicate a jump of 74% among children in the age group 5 to 14 years and 160% among the four-year olds, reveal the National Institute of Health. Apart from this, about one in every four U.S. children also suffers from allergy. A recent study has revealed that Spanish children, who eat minimum 40gms of fruity-vegetables, such as cucumber, tomatoes, green beans, eggplants, and zucchini, were less likely to develop Asthma and other respiratory disorders. Fruity-vegetables are grown from a blossom in the plant, which comes from seed.

A study, carried out on 500 Spanish children, in a period of seven years, in the Spanish Island of Menorca, was published in Pediatric Allergy and Immunology, also stating that those consuming more than 60gms of fish a day, were less likely to develop childhood allergies. In another study, conducted by the University of Crete, Greece, the Lead Author, Dr. Leda Chatzi, studied children below six years of age, and noted that there was specific evidences of dietary effects, and that other groups, such as bread, meat and diary, provides the same protective effect, along with fruits and vegetables.

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