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What you can do to reduce
fat in your diet.
Eating healthily shouldn't
mean a drastic crash course diet, but a rather sustained effort over time to
make intelligent choices:
- Watch out for hidden fat.
Sweet foods such as muffins, cake, biscuits, pies, have more fat than sugar
calories. Similarly, crisps, chips, and other snack foods are high in fat. If
in doubt, read the food labels.
Cut down on the sauces and
toppings added to your food. Gravy, salad dressing, sour cream, butter,
margarine, mayonnaise, and whipped cream are almost full fat. Even small
amounts of these foods can boost the fat content of your diet.
- Drink low-fat diary products.
Skimmed milk has the same nutritional value as Whole Milk, but no fat, and
half the calories. Cottage Cheese, yoghurt made from skimmed milk have the
same advantage.
- Use low fat cooking techniques
if you cook at home, boiling, grilling, and stir frying, rather than
deep-frying, or pan-frying. Also reduce the amount of take-always you eat, as
most are cooked in fat.
If you shop, select lean
cuts of meat. Choice and Prime are the highest in fat.
- Remove the visible fat from
meat before cooking it and drain the grease from Hamburgers after frying it.
Also, before eating poultry, remove the skin.
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