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Will You Be Overweight in 10 Years?
Here's How to Make the Prediction

       Are you a sugary drink-fatty sweet-snack food type, a butter-cream-gravy type, or perhaps, a light-eating-poultry type?  Within the answer lies your chance of becoming overweight down the line, according to a new study out of Boston University.

       Researchers there looked at the eating patterns of more than 700 women of healthy weight.  After 12 years, women identified as "empty calorie" eaters were the most likely to become overweight, with a 41 percent risk.  Their diets were heavy on sugary drinks, fatty sweets like chocolates and cookies, and snack foods such as chips and salted nuts.

       Surprisingly, the women in the so-called light eating group had the second highest risk of becoming overweight - 30 percent.  Their diets did contain fewer calories than the diets of the other women (despite being relatively high in poultry with skin).  But the researchers suspect many of them tended to gain weight because they went through, alternating periods of low-calorie, "light" eating and binge eating.

       "High-fat" eaters, whose diets contained a lot of butter, cream, dressings, gravies, and oils, had a 29 percent risk of becoming overweight.  And women following the "heart healthy" eating pattern - highest in fruits, vegetables, low-fat milk, and beans - were among the least likely to become overweight, with a 24 percent risk.

Tufts University Health & Nutrition Letter
November 2002 Issue, Page 7