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Old 2015-01-23, 02:30 PM   #3
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Originally Posted by tadpole View Post
How do you become overweight eating vegetables? and fruit?
Vegetarian food can be very fattening. I was a vegetarian for a while in the 1980s, and I put on a hell of a lot of weight then. Even now I eat some vegetarian meals (sometimes for a change, sometimes because I feel I have been eating too much fat or red meat - or both) and I have to be careful of my weight when I do this. Kind of counter intuitive, but sometimes I am eating vegetarian to reduce my fat intake, and put on weight because I am eating lower fat meals!
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