UF Researchers Provide Holiday Diet Tips

University of Florida (UF) researchers say people don’t have to go no-carb to stay fit during the holidays. In fact, many dieters may be cutting out the wrong foods altogether, according to findings from a UF paper published recently in the “European Journal of Nutrition.”

Dieters should focus on limiting the amount of fructose they eat instead of cutting out starchy foods such as bread, rice and potatoes, report the researchers, who propose using new dietary guidelines based on fructose to gauge how healthy foods are.

There’s a fair amount of evidence that starch-based foods don’t cause weight gain like sugar-based foods and don’t cause the metabolic syndrome like sugar-based foods,” said Dr. Richard Johnson, senior author of the report.  Click here to read more.