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Eat For Health: Eating Seeds and Nuts To Lose Weight

Posted on August 21, 2008

This is an excerpt from Dr. Fuhrman s book Eat For Health.If you are significantly overweight and want to maximize your weight loss, you should limit your intake of seeds, nuts and avocados to one (one ounce) serving a day since they are calorie-rich. However, you should not exclude these healthy, high-fat foods completely from your diet. It may seem illogical to include such high fat foods in your diet (since fat is 9 calories a gram compared with 4 calories a gram for carbohydrates and protein) however epidemiological studies show an inverse relationship between seed and nut consumption an...

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