It’s time for a new slim-down mantra: Eat more to weigh less. No
joke! The right foods help you drop pounds by revving up your
calorie burn and curbing cravings.  1. Potatoes  Potatoes are
great weight loss foods. Believe it or not, potatoes contain
only 97 calories; sweet potatoes only 120. You can burn up to 25
percent more fat following a meal containing potatoes due to its
content of fat-resistant starch. In addition, eating a single
sweet potato offers eight times the vitamin A needed daily to
effectively boost the immune system and fight cancer.  2. Apples
Apples contain pectin, a soluble fiber that transforms into a
adhesive gel-like substance when eaten, binding to simple
sugars, slowing them from being absorbed into the bloodstream
and being stored as fat. A recent study from the American
College of Nutrition revealed that eating an apple before meals
can curb appetite up to 4 hours. Apples are also full of fiber
which keeps the stomach felling full longer, and they require a
lot of chewing so it se