If you like to eat a lot at snack time, you should choose lots of healthy fruits and vegetables! In this video, weight loss specialist Caroline Apovian, MD, suggests some great snack ideas you can make with fresh fruits and vegetables.
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Well if you like to eat a lot during snack time pick fruits and vegetables. So what do I mean by that? Pick carrots with a low fat homas pick salary stocks with some low fat cottage cheese, any kind of fruit, frozen, fresh make sure if you choose canned fruit that it's not packed in sugar.
Sugar is the only poison that we know, white sugar that gets added to our food, very bad for you, but fruits and vegetables can always work as a snack. Growth vegetables, steamed vegetables, raw vegetables with some low fat dip it's a wonderful snack.
Caroline Apovian, MD is the director of the Nutrition and Weight Management Center at Boston Medical Center and director of Clinical Research at the Obesity Research Center at the Boston University Medical Campus.
