What Foods To Avoid To Control Your Weight-Healthy Living Part 8

Knowing what food to eat and what to avoid to maintain a well-balanced diet not only can control your weight, but also save you from heart and blood vessel disease, therefore to prolong your life. A bad diet consists of a majority of high-fat processed foods, such as salty or sugary snacks, fast food and red meat. Eat a bad diet and heart disease is inevitable.

A low fat diet can, in fact, help you to enjoy the kind of over-all good health that makes life worth living. There are certain foods we should avoid in different foods group which may destroy our health and our heart.

Soups – The high in fat content soup is creamed soups. The commercially prepared ones are particularly fat-heavy, and since the fat cannot be readily removed from them, they should not be used. It is always a good idea to read the label carefully on any packaged product from which soup is being made. The law pertaining to the labelling of foods requires a in the product, so undesirable sources of fat can be avoided.

Meats – Meats are basic ingredients in the low-fat diet, since their protein content is most desirable for energy and palatability. Among meats pork, bacon, and ham are highest in fat and cholesterol content. They should not be eaten on the low-fat diet other than occasionally. So are the glandular organs such as sweetbreads, brains, kidneys, caviar, fish roe, and giblets, except liver.

Fish – Certain fish are high in fat content and are best avoided. These are: bass, bluefish, butterfish, deviled crab, eel, herring, mackerel, scalloped or fried oysters, pompano, salmon, sardines, shad, and trout.

Poultry – Ducks and geese are always considered a fatty meat, because they have a layer of fat just beneath their skin. So skinless duck and goose breast fillets are actually very lean.

Dairy Products – Whole milk, cream, butter, and cheeses such as American cheddar, Swiss, cream, creamed cottage, cheese spreads, Gruyere, Edam, Limberger, Liederkranz, Parmesan, Roquefort, and Yogurt made from whole milk are all high in fats and should be eliminated from your diet.

Eggs – Egg yolks are exceptionally high in cholesterol and fat content. They are often used by medical investigators and researchers to produce atherosclerosis and “hardening of the arteries” in experimental animals.

Breads – Eat hot breads, pancakes, waffles, coffee cakes, muffins, buns, doughnuts, Danish pastry, sweet rolls as less as you can, because they all contain some appreciable amount of lard, butter, or egg yolk. If desired, you can find recipes for these fat-free breads and pastries in low-fat cook books online for home baking.

Desserts – All those made with butter, egg-yolks, or cream should not be consumed, such as pies, cakes, pastries, cookies, custards, eclairs, gingerbread, shortcake, and puddings. Notoriously high in fat and cholesterol are ice-cream, parfaits, and frozen creams.

Miscellaneous Foods – Avocados, coconuts, nuts, cholocate, cocoa, fat contained in the usual salad dressings, gravies, and sauces are all very fatty. Animal fats, including lard and suet, should particularly be avoided in cooking.

Frying foods is a very unhealthy way to interfere with the normal digestion of foods and essential nutriments and vitamins. Frying should be completely eliminated in the preparation of foods, not only because of its high fat production, but also because the irritating character and effect on the digestive tract of the fried fats, and the destruction of vitamins and essential food stuffs in the food that is fried. Even vegetable fats are best not used. Despite of that, vegetable oils such as soya oil, cornseed oil, and cottonseed oils are exceptions.

Alcohol has no fat content, so there are no restrictions on its use other than by the dictates of common sense and self-control. Don’t forget that the calories in liquors can easily mount up!

The low-fat, low-cholesterol diet will help protect you against heart and blood vessel disease. At the same time, it is a diet that will greatly improve your general state of health and increase your vitality.[youtube:XbiFeI7I7RQ;[link:Recipes Tofu For Pizza Cooking];http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XbiFeI7I7RQ&feature=related]