How fruit and vegetables can aid weight loss

If you're struggling to sustain the self control not to snack on the culprits responsible for contributing to a wider waistline, swapping tasty treats for fibre fuelled fruit and vegetables can benefit more than just your ability to banish a bothersome binge.

Here's how an apple (together with some sprouts, strawberries and spinach) can aid your fight against the flab.

1. Their slow digestion leaves them less likely to spike blood sugar levels.
Slashing the sweet stuff may be essential for the elimination of excess weight, but the intrinsic sugars found in unaltered fruit and vegetables won't subject your blood sugar to the rapid spikes and slumps that are responsible for creating uncontrollable cravings. In fact, as intrinsic sugars take longer to enter the bloodstream, you're less likely to experience the overwhelming urge to turn to a processed pick me up in an attempt to stablise blood sugar levels that have taken a slump.

2. They reduce your risk of over consuming the calories that can lead to an accumulation of additional weight, if you fail to burn the excess energy via physical activity.
Renowned for being low in calories but high in health enhancing nutrients, fuelling your body with fruit and vegetables will allow you to increase your daily intake of vital vitamins, minerals and antioxidants - including vitamin C and lycopene - without the worry of over consuming the calories that you're trying to cut down on.

3. Their fibre fuelled properties can prevent you from piling on the pounds.
If their cholesterol free, complex carbohydrate and low in saturated fat status is yet to convince you to swap sugar fuelled snacks for fresh fruit and vegetables, their fibre fuelled properties might. Aside from aiding a healthy digestive tract, fibre not only leaves you feeling fuller for longer, but less likely to turn to the addictive added sugar that will sacrifice the success of your weight loss plan if you fail to sustain self control, or master the meaning of moderation.

4. They can satisfy a sweet tooth.
Whether its a handful of raspberries, red currants and pomegranate or a fresh fruit salad, the natural sweetness of fruit instantly satisfies a sweet tooth without intensifying the urge to overindulge in the sugar fuelled snacks that lead to a loss of willpower, and an increase in excess weight.

Top tip: if you're trying to slash the sweet stuff found in fruit and vegetables (the better stuff that we don't need to cut down on) as well as the addictive added sugar found in tasty treats and takeaways (the bad stuff that we do need to cut down on), consume more vegetables than fruit - they contain less intrinsic sugars and fewer calories.

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