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Doctors say stop calorie counting and start looking at food’s overall nutrition

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Don't become a calorie counting diet bore (Picture: file)
Calories aren’t everything (Picture: Getty)

Forget calorie content, doctors are telling us to look at the overall nutrition of our food instead.

In an article in Open Heart, researchers have recommended a high-fat Mediterranean diet as the best way to combat obesity and heart diseases.

With obesity costing the NHS over £5 billion a year, they’re recommending we make substantial changes to our diet rather than quick fixes advocated by the weight loss industry.

They wrote: ‘Shifting focus away from calories and emphasising a dietary pattern that focuses on food quality rather than quantity will help to rapidly reduce obesity, related diseases and cardiovascular risk.’

Unfortunately, this doesn’t mean you can start stuffing your face with everything as long… Read the full story


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