Eating Healthy Tip 21

Tips to reduce fat in food

It is true that type of fat that we eat is more important than the amount of fat that we eat. But many times, changing the type of fat might not suit a particular preparation. Using different flavoured oil for cooking might also face stiff resistance from family members.

It is always a safe bet to reduce the fat content in the recipe. Here are few friendly tips to reduce the fat consumption.

• Always measure oil. Try using half the quantity of you used before. In most cases this will not sacrifice the taste.
• Use non stick pan. Doing this will help in spreading the fat better. You may even sauté food in fruit juice instead of fat.
• Try using buttermilk as a base of salad dressing, instead of salad oil.
• Chill soups after preparation & skim off the fat that is floating on top. This trick can be done on many other preparations too.
• While making sandwiches, substitute butter or mayonnaise spicy mustard or mint chutney.

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How to preserve nutrients while cooking.      

Most of us eat only thrice a day & work for 24 hrs because our body works even when we are asleep.  This means that these three meals should give us all the nutrients required to run, nourish, repair & maintain our body.  Dietitians will tell you that 75% of our food should be raw.  Both you and I know that this prescription is difficult to follow & even more difficult to enforce on our family members.  Today, let’s take a middle path and see how to preserve maximum nutrients while cooking food.

The three enemies of food are heat, air & water.  If we have to choose the biggest stealer of nutrients, it has to be water.  Any cooking method that uses the least of the above three is preferred.

The first choice that comes to mind is microwave.  Even when you Google for best cooking methods, the top articles will point to microwave.  However, internet can be a great source of misinformation too.  Microwaving food destroys all most all antioxidants & thus does not get my recommendation as a preferred cooking method.  Microwave might still be an economical, fuel efficient & a convenient way to reheat food but is not advisable for preparing food.  The powerful convenience food lobby is responsible for gagging all negative studies of microwave from being published.

Let’s look at tips to preserve nutrients while cooking.

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LIGHTEN UP- Ten Tips

For Eating Well and loosing weight without having to Diet

March 2^nd, 2009 on my 37th birthday when I woke up, I decide to do something about my health and weight. By then, I was nothing but an aging, snoring, overweight and unhealthy husband. Like most men  love food and to me all food is comfort food. But after too much over too many years, I ended up not only with BIG STOMACH, but also with high cholesterol and blood pressure.

As a foodie, there was no way I could go on a diet. Instead, I banned the word DIET and decided to get HEALTHY . I came up with a plan-not a diet – A way of eating well which means ” Missing out on nothing that I like”.

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Eating healthy in a budget:

I read a lot of tweets today which said “Love to eat healthy but its expensive”.

This is exactly what some of you must be thinking after reading my previous blogs.  Eating healthy is not all about indulging in exotic fruits and expensive nuts.  Healthy eating are just small little changes in lifestyle!

Lets look at what healthy eating could mean:

• Healthy eating could mean eating only when you are hungry.
• Healthy eating habit would mean substituting table salt with sea salt.
• Eating healthy may also mean avoiding milk in your tea.
• A healthy eater is someone who abstains from processed foods.
• A part of healthy eating would be to use all the gifts of nature like eating the skin & seeds of fruits.

Come onnnnnn…….. All these certainly does not cost more.  In fact, they save money!  We are not even talking of your reduced medical bills here.

Here are some more tips to eat healthy within a budget:

1. In most of the markets, vegetables are much cheaper than the meat products.  Going Vegan is good for economic reasons too.
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How to start eating healthy

Its confession time ! Haven’t we all experimented with low carb food, naturo food  or controlled diet & found it an extremely unsatisfying experience? Experts say that this failure is because of  of a sense of deprivation. As soon as we go on a diet we crave for those goodies , because we feel that we are depriving ourselves of those wonderful tastes. Here are a few tips to make your healthy eating habit, a permanent one.

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