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How To Eat Healthy

September 22nd, 2010

1. Watch your fat intake. Each fat gram contains 9 calories so by reading the total calories on a food and knowing the quantity of fat, you can estimate the % of fat, which should in no way exceed 30% of the food.

2. Be mindful of the sodium in your diet as well, as too much sodium can be one of the causes of obesity. If you have too much sodium in your diet, more than 2,400 mg or about 1 teaspoon per day, make sure you cut down.

3. Substitute table butter for cholesterol-free butter. If you have a choice that it is healthier for you and tastes just the same, you should make that choice. Simple substitutes like this will be very beneficial towards weight reduction.

4. Instead of frying things try baking them without fat. Baking is by far a healthier method of preparing food than frying. Baking requires lesser oil or fat.

5. Use a non-stick frying pan for your cooking so that you can cut down on any unnecessary greasing. The golden rule is to try and avoid as much fat as possible and a non-stick pan is the perfect solution to reducing your consumption of fat.

6. Boil your vegetables instead of cooking them, or even better, eat them fresh. However if you do not like eating your vegetables as it is, try steaming them without adding anything at all. This is probably the healthiest way to eat cabbages, cauliflowers and a host of other vegetables.

7. Carry parsley with you. Parsley is an excellent herb to snack on between meals. It provides a variety of vitamins, plus a fresh scent to your breath.

8. When available, substitute a low-fat or fat-free version. There are many low-fat and fat-free version of many foods in the market these days, although most people just pick up whatever they can get. Shop wisely and choose lower fat substitutes, as these will help weight loss and are healthier for your heart.

In fact, with weight loss being so popular these days, most products will have a low-fat or fat-free version. Look around for these options next time you go shopping for groceries.

Fats do have nutrients, but the calories they pack outweigh their benefits, unlike proteins and carbohydrates, so cut down on them where you can

9. Avoid crash diets. They are bad for health and you will gain what you have lost once you take a break. Crash diets are not a solution to weight loss. It might seem as if you have lost few pounds but the moment you give up on the crash diet every thing will bounce back with a vengeance.

Take a look at it in this way. Do you think that it is possible for a person to survive on a crash diet for the rest of his or her life? Certainly not! So at some time or the other, you will have to give up the crash diet and then you will see for yourself that a crash diet does more harm than good on the long run. Crash diets may have a lot to promise, but very rarely do these promises ring true. Crash diets are things people go on in order to wear an old dress or suit for a particular occasion. That’s the only purpose that they serve as far as I can see.

10. Make it a habit to chewing all foods, especially sweets, thoroughly -at least 8 to 12 times. This important because it will add saliva to the food and saliva is critical to the digestion of sugar. Many people have a bad habit of eating so fast, as if they were swallowing it. This reduces the saliva added to the food, which reduces the amount of nutrients that our stomach can absorb from it.

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