41.
Watch your fat intake. Each fat gram contains 9 calories so by readi ng the total calories on a food and knowi ng the quantity of fat , you can estimate the % of fat, which should in no way exceed 30% of the food.
42.
Go ea sy on sal t, as too much salt is one of the causes of obesi ty. Make it a point to rea ly cut down on salt. Try to bring down your salt intake to half of what it was last year.
43.
Cha nge from table buter to cholesterol free buter. If you have a choice why not g for it, any way it is healthier for you and tastes just the same. Bear in mind that these smal changes can go a long way towards wei ght reduction.
44.
Instead of fry ing things try baking them without fat. Baking is by far a healthier method of p rep aring food than fry ing. Baking requires lesser oil or fat.
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Use a non stick f ry in g pan for your cooki ng so that you do not have to add oil. The golden rule is to try and avoid as much oil as p ossible and a non stick pan is the p erfect solution to this problem.
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Boil your v egetables instead of cooking them, or even bete r, eat them fresh. However if you do not like eating your vegetables as it is, try steaming them without addi ng a nythi ng at al. This is probab ly the healthiest way to eat cabbages, cauliflowers and a host of other vegetables.
47.
Car y parsley with you. Parsley is an excelent thing to munch on in between meals. Not just is it good for you in
terms of vitamin s, but it is also a perfect way of maki ng your breath fresher.
48.
Choose low fat substitutes or no fat substitutes. There are p lent y of low fat or even no fat substitutes available in the market so why not choose wisely . It is much beter for you heart too. Many people just go for shopping and pick up whatever they can. They do not bother to find out if there are nay substitutes for the thi ng th ey are looki ng for.
In the markets of tod ay, you wil be astounded at the ra nge of goods that manufactures have to ofer. In fact with al the hue and cry that is bei ng made about we ig ht loss, low fat substitutes and no fat substitutes are hitin g the stands faster than mushrooms that sp rout after the first rains.
So the next time you head for the stores instead of p icki ng up what you have alway s p icked up, see if there are beter substitutes.
Remember that our bodies need nutrients and not just calories. Fats give us nutrients but with more calories than what proteins or carbohydrates do.
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Avoid crash diets. Th ey are bad for health and you wil gain what you have lost once you take a break. Crash diets are not a solution to we ight loss. It mig ht seem as if you have lost few pounds but the moment you give up on the crash diet every thing wil bounce back with a vengeance.
Take a look at it in this way. Do you think that it is p ossible for a p erson to survive on a crash diet for the rest of his or her life? Certain ly not! So at some time or the othe r, you wil have to give up the crash diet and then you wil see for y ourself that a crash diet does more harm than good on the long run.
Crash diets may have a lot to promis e, but ve ry rare ly do these p romises rin g true. Crash diets are thi ngs pe ople go on in order to wear an old dress or suit for a particular occasion. That's the onl y pu rp ose that they serve as far as I can see.
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God gave us teeth for a reason.
Therefore we should devel op a habit of chewi ng al food including liquid food and soft foods like sweets, ice creams at least 8 to 12 times. This is essential to add saliva to the foo d, as it is on ly in the saliva that sug ar is di gested.
Often we find that whatever goes into our mouth goes down like l ig htning . We hardl y give the saliva any time to act on the food. So does di gestion take place like it should? Do we just stuf our tummies with food that doesn't get d ig ested or in other words that doesn't y ield the benefits that it should?
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