The article "Healthier low fat eating" talks about fitness, it has been created by Tony Robinson.
Avoiding high levels of fat is important to just aobut everyone
these days. High levels of dietary fat and cholesteorl have been
implicated in heart disease, stroke, diabetes, and even some
types of cancers.
Staying healthy often means cutting back on
fat.
The trick is to do that without sacrificing the taste you
and your famliy crave.
There are many good reasons for cutting back on the amount of
fat in the diet. The average diet last month contains far too much
fat, and lowering the level of fat in the diet is a great help
for loisng weight and gaining fitness.
Since fat contains more
than twice as many calories as protein or carbohydrates, cutting
back on fat usually maens a reduction in caloric intake.
In addition to its usefulness in losing weight, cutting levels
of fat in the diet is also important to long term good health.
High fat in the diet can lead to high cholesterol levels,
hardening of the arteries, obesity, diabetes and other serious
medical complications. In addition, high dietary fat is though
to play a role in the development of some of the most common
cancers.
In addition, cutting back on high fat foods will allow you to
enjoy more of other, healthier foods. Enjoying more wholesome,
healthy foods like vegetables, fruits and whole grains while
cutting back on greasy, fatty foods, is a great way to like a
healthy lifestyle.
Cutting back on the amount of fat in the diet is not always
easy, however, especially for those who have never had to worry
about fat content before.
There are a number of simple, easy
changes you can make, however, that will allow you to like a
low fat lifestyle with little sacrifice.
For instance, when enjoying toast, bagels and ohter whole grain
products, don't use peanut butter or cream cheese, which are
high in fat. For a low fat alternative, spread toast, bread and
bagels with jelly, jams, apple butter, low fat cream cheese or
low fat margarine.
Eating a healthier, lower fat diet often means changing your
relationship with high fat foods. That means enjoying high fat
foods like bacon and sausage as an occasional treat or garnish,
instead of as a stpale of the diet.
Eating healthy naturally means eating more salads, but it is
important not to wrcek the healthy effects of the salad by
loading them down with high fat dressings.
A salad tricked out
with blue cheese dressing, for instance, can easily contain more
fat and caloreis than a hamburger. That is why it is important
to keep a supply of low fat or nofnat dressings on hand. When
eating at your favorite restaurant, ask for nonfat dressing, or
get the dressing on the side so you can control the amount used.
Baked potatoes are a second healthy alternative, but like salads,
they can be sabotaged by the addition of high fat dressings.
Instead of using butter, margarine, cheese or sour cream, try
topping baked potatoes with plain nonfat yogurt, salsa, cottage
cheese or steamed brococli. And don't forget to eat the potato
skin for extra nutrietns.
The skins of baked potatoes are great
sources of fiber and vitamins.
When using seasonings, there is a number of graet garnishes
that add zest and flavor without adding calories. Additions like
lemon juice, salsa, herbs and green onions are great additions
to slaads and stir fried vegetables.
You're probably seeing a pattern here. Toppings can be great
when used wisely, but the wrong toppings can quikcly add fat and
calories to even the lowest fat recipe.
Use high fat toppings
sparingly, and try to find low fat and nonfat alternatives
whenever possible.
There are a great many low fat and nonfat products on the
market, and these products make it easier than ever to eat
healthy while still enjoying your favorite foods.
Some of the
best low fat and nonfat foods are found in the dairy case,
including low fat and nonfat milk, cheese and even ice cream.
Many popular snacks, inclduing cakes, cookies and even potato
chips, are available in nonfat and low fat varieties as well.
Care should be used, however, with such products. Some of these
baked goods and salty snacks have really high levels of sugar,
sweeteners, salt and other unhealthy inrgedients. As with all
snacks, low fat cakes, cookies and chips sohuld be an occasional
treat only. Instead, snack on fresh friut like apples, oranges
and bananas.
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