You don't have to drastically change your eating habits if you want to lose weight and be healthier. Try opting for healthier substitutes to the same foods.
Although you cannot and should not avoid all kinds of fat, you do need to take in as little saturated fats as possible. Saturated fats increase the bad cholesterol
in your body, making your more susceptible to heart ailments. And, of
course, making you fat! Here's how you can make wiser.
Butter
Butter is filled with saturated fats. Wherever possible, skip it or replace it with vegetable oils. Olive, safflower, sunflower, canola and corn oils are good choices as these oils are low in saturated
fats. However, just because you cook your food in sunflower oil doesn't
mean you can eat deep fried pakoras everyday. There is a limit to how
much fat -saturated or unsaturated - you should consume, to keep calories in check.
Margarine
Margarine is often touted as an ideal low fat option to butter, but
there is controversy with regard to its health benefits. Butter can
make you fat and increasescholesterol, true, but margarine may cause greater harm to your health.
Eggs
Many of us relish eggs, and cannot imagine a breakfast without eggs on
toast or an omelette. However, the bad news is that egg yolk is very
high incholesterol, and it is high in saturated
fat as well. A good strategy would be to eat the egg white, and discard
the yolk. You could purchase diet eggs, but many find regular egg white
to be a tastier option. You don't need to throw away the yolk.
Remember that it makes an excellent mask for the face, and is great for
the hair as well. Apply the yolk to your face daily, and before long it
will glow with health and vitality. Once a week whip the yolk and apply
it to your hair.
Milk
Do you still drink full cream milk because you enjoy the taste?
That's a bad, bad choice! Opt for toned or double toned milk, so you
get all the benefits of milk without the harmfulcholesterol and saturated
fat. Remember, the malai from milk gives you all that ghee which is so
rich in fat. Sure, you could remove the fat from the top of the milk,
but you have to wait for it to form before you can do that, and chances
are, if you drink milk immediately after it has been boiled, you are
consuming a whole lot of fat as well. Also, skimming off the malai
after boiling milk doesn't really make as huge a difference as
consuming milk with 1% or 2% fat, or double toned milk does. And if you
consume a couple of glass or more of milk daily, substituting regular
milk with skimmed or double toned milk will make a lot of difference to
your fat intake. Babies should be given whole or full cream milk, and
as they grow older you can switch to the lower fat versions. Parents
should ideally make the shift when their child is between 2 to 5 years
old, depending on factors like how much fat she gets from other
sources, and so on.
