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Lower Body Exercises

Can Certain Foods Help You Get a Big Butt?

Published Oct,10 2011 | By Angela Ogunjimi

While no specific food is shown to fill out your rear, gaining weight will make your entire body grow larger. You'll accomplish this by eating more calories than you burn for energy, causing your body to store the excess as fat. Eating 500 extra calories per day will make you gain 1 pound each week.

Angela Ogunjimi has been a prize-winning writer and editor since 1994. She was a general assignment reporter at two newspapers and a business writer at two magazines. She writes on nutrition, obesity, diabetes and weight control for a project of the National Institutes of Health. Ogunjimi holds a master's degree in sociology from George Washington University and a bachelor's in journalism from New York University.