What Is A Low Fat Diet
The aim of losing weight put simply is to reduce the amount of fat you carry round. The most logical way to do this is eat less calories each day than you have usually been eating or to do more exercise to burn up the calories you already have stored. However, a low fat diet is usually benefited by a combination of both.
Foods rich in fats generally contain a lot of calories, so watch them! Be beware, because there are other items which are extremely high in calories like sugar products which may not contain fat, but would still make you fat. With confusions like this it is no wonder that it's so easy to put on too much weight.
Therefore, along with a low-fat diet, you also need to keep a check on sweets and other sugary foods too.
A little tip here is to look for foods that use fructose as a sweetener rather than other types of sugar. With fructose you only need about half as much to get the same flavor, so you take on less calories.
Facts about fats
Not all fats are bad, though all of them are high on calories.
Our body needs fat! In fact there are some kind of fats which are actually good for health, but it's important to know what the two different types of fats are and what they do.
Saturated fats
Saturated fats are mostly found in meat, lard and dairy products like butter, full cream milk etc. Some hydrogenated vegetable oils, though extracted from vegetables, contain saturated fats because they are processed to make them 'hard' and very similar to saturated fats. These are used in large quantities in the market to make cakes, biscuits & pastries.
Though the saturated fats are used to make lots of popular and delicious food, you have to be more careful and choosy about what you eat to get a healthier lifestyle. Things made from these fats taste great, but they can make you huge, so try to eat less saturated fats as they also increase your cholesterol level by good margins.
Unsaturated fats
Unsaturated fats are mainly attained from vegetables, nuts and fruits. There are three types of unsaturated fats;
- Poly-unsaturated fats like corn oil & sunflower oil
- Mono-unsaturated fats like olive oil, rapeseed oil etc.
- Omega3 fatty acids from seafood like sardines, fresh tuna etc.
Unsaturated fats are much less likely to raise our cholesterol levels and are termed as 'good fats'. Omega3 fatty acids are even believed to be helpful in preventing certain heart ailments and improve general heath in several other ways too.
Watch your food before you buy
Foods that contain fat usually have it in a mixture of saturated and unsaturated fats. They mostly have labels which notify the quantity of each type of fat in it; especially the food rich in saturated fats. You should try to reduce the saturated fat intake and choose unsaturated fats whenever you need to have fats in your diet. Try to develop a habit of checking the labels on the packaging to know how many calories are in the food while you shop.
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