41.
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.
42.
Go easy on salt, as too much salt is one of the causes of obesity.
Make it a point to really cut down on salt. Try to bring down your salt
intake to half of what it was last year.
43.
Change from table butter to cholesterol free butter. 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 small changes can go a long way towards weight
reduction.
44.
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.
45.
Use a non stick frying pan for your cooking so that you do not
have to add oil. The golden rule is to try and avoid as much oil as possible
and a non stick pan is the perfect solution to this problem.
46.
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.
47.
Carry parsley with you. Parsley is an excellent thing to munch on
in between meals. Not just is it good for you in terms of vitamins, but it is
also a perfect way of making your breath fresher.
48.
Choose low fat substitutes or no fat substitutes. There are plenty
of low fat or even no fat substitutes available in the market so why not choose
wisely. It is much better 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 thing they are looking for. In the markets of today, you will be astounded at the range of
goods that manufactures have to offer. In fact with all the hue and cry that
is being made about weight loss, low fat substitutes and no fat substitutes
are hitting the stands faster than mushrooms that sprout after the first
rains. So the next time you head for the stores instead of picking up
what you have always picked up, see if there are better 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.
49.
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.
50.
God gave us teeth for a reason...
Therefore we should develop a habit of chewing all 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 food, as it is only in the saliva that sugar
is digested. Often we find that whatever goes into our mouth goes down like
lightning. We hardly give the saliva any time to act on the food. So does
digestion take place like it should? Do we just stuff our tummies with food that
doesn’t get digested or in other words that doesn’t yield the benefits that it
should?
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