Eating More Meat Means More Weight Gain Over Time

Posted on: Wednesday, 21 July 2010, 06:45 CDT

A study on thousands of Europeans suggests that eating less meat may in fact help you keep slim and trim.

Dr. Anne-Claire Vergnaud of Imperial College London and colleagues found that people who ate more meat gained more weight over five years than those who ate less meat, but had the same amount of calories.

The team wrote in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition that the “results suggest that a decrease in meat consumption may improve weight management.”

The study included more than 370,000 men and women from 10 different European countries.

Vergnaud and her team found that Danes, Germans, Spaniards and Swedes were the biggest meat-eaters, with men eating about 300 calories of meat and women consuming about 200 calories. Among all meat-eaters in the countries included in the study, Greeks ate the least: 200 calories for men and 140 for women.

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