{"id":2084,"date":"2014-06-04T17:27:45","date_gmt":"2014-06-04T07:27:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.panicola.com\/?p=2084"},"modified":"2014-06-04T17:27:45","modified_gmt":"2014-06-04T07:27:45","slug":"eating-more-fruit-and-veg-wont-stop-obesity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.panicola.com\/?p=2084","title":{"rendered":"Eating more fruit and veg won’t stop obesity"},"content":{"rendered":"

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http:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/health\/archive\/2014\/06\/eating-more-fruits-and-vegetables-wont-stop-obesity\/371992\/<\/p>\n

Eating More Fruits and Vegetables Won’t Stop Obesity<\/h1>\n
People have been eating more fresh produce as the obesity epidemic has worsened. They’ve been eating more of everything else, too.<\/div>\n
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Why are so many people overweight? Part of the reason, some think, is because they don’t have access to, the money to buy, or the desire to eat fresh fruits and vegetables.<\/p>\n

That’s the idea behind initiatives like the “One more a day pledge<\/a>” (whose slogan sounds like the pledge-taker might already be choking on carrots:\u00a0“I pledge to eat … and help my family eat … at least ONE MORE fruit or veggie every day.”<\/em>[ellipses sic])<\/p>\n

Produce is less calorically dense than grains, meat, and fat, so increasing its consumption might indeed make sense as an obesity-fighting strategy\u2014that is, if eating more fruits and vegetables caused people to compensate by eating fewer cookies and french fries.<\/p>\n