Can eating a diverse diet help you lose weight?

[jennifer_bloom]

I think the reason rich people tend to be skinnier than poor people is that they eat a larger variety of foods than poor people.

I don't believe it's because they exercise or have more self control, cause the ones I know that are genetically thin, are too busy to exercise and are no different from others.

I've seen rich people go to a restaurant and order around 12 dishes with each dish containing 10 ingredients inside it, so they are consuming around 80 types of food in a single meal such as corn, green peas, asparagus, water chestnuts, okra etc... this is for parties where 15 people show up, not single person meals.

While poor people will eat French fries twice a week, and their variety might be 20% what a rich person eats.

[RealMarek]

It depends. If rich people overeat they become overweight too. I saw a group of executives who came into funding and would go to restaurants and gorge themselves with $1,000/plate meals. Sometimes they required me to join them. There was a huge variety of foods involved. Variety did not keep them fit. They got very overweight very quickly.

[Astarlessnightsky]

Not necessarily, but a healthy diet consists of a variety of things.

More importantly is cooking fresh, as ready to eat meals and fast food contain lots of sugar and fat, which makes you fat.

[John_Cobretti]

I really doubt it to be frank
I believe it's the calories that matter at the end of the day when it comes to weight loss

But a diverse diet which gets you all the essential things you need or in other words a well balanced diet is of course better and healthier than just fries or any junk food