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Eating Fruit To Conquer Your Sweet Tooth

KYW Medical Reports Sponsored By Independence Blue Cross

By KYW Medical Editor Dr. Brian McDonough

PHILADELPHIA (CBS) - It takes tremendous will power to turn down a piece of candy or a slice of cake. But here's some good news: you don't have to live a life of total denial.

One of my favorite studies over the past ten years is one from Cornell published in the Journal Appetite. They found the key to living with a sweet tooth is meeting the tooth halfway.

If you're a sweets lover, try to replace a few sugary snacks with more healthful sweet snacks that are packed with nutrients. Not just sugar and calories.

Te replacement? Fruit.

As the authors of the study point out, the same desire for sugar that leads us to eat candy is also the same that helps us want to have fruit.

They conducted a study looking at vegetable lovers and fruit lovers. The researchers found fruit lovers ate more sweet snacks then veggie lovers did. In fact, fruit lovers ate sweet snacks more than 15 times a week.

The key is making a health substitution.

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