How To Reduce Dietary Fat With Good Food Choice

By India Smyth

If you are embarking on a fitness program, whether it be for a specific activity or increasing muscle, such as body building, it is important to address your diet. It is important to eat a healthy diet even if you are following diets like a high in protein diet.

It is particularly important even for those dieting, on a weight loss program. A lot of diets for sports are not always the healthy ones. Fat intake is a particularly important area. The following provides tips and advice on which foods to buy and how to cook them in the best way to reduce fat intake:

Foods to purchase:

Find out if there are alternatives to the food you normally buy by checking the labels and choosing low saturated fat ones.

Poultry without the skin on contains much less fat.

Vegetarian and Fish alternatives tend to have a lower fat content.

Choose low fat varieties of dairy foods, like semi-skimmed milk and lower fat yoghurts.

A pie with only one crust on the top is lower in fat.

Check your cut of meat and the amount of visible fat. Look out for lower fat alternatives of meat such as lean mince meat. Check the visible amount of fat on the meat.

Food preparation in the Kitchen:

Unsaturated oil are a much healthier alternative to saturated oils. The most popular unsaturated oils are rapeseed, olive and sunflower oils. These are a good alternative to lard, butter and ghee.

Grill your meat as an alternative to frying it. Grilling encourages all the fat from the meat to run off and away. Removing the fat from the meat prior to cooking will lower the fat content.

Using a non-stick pan can allow you to avoid using fat or oil altogether.

Using low fat spreads when making foods such as mashed potatoes is a much healthier alternative.

If you are on a fitness plan then a more healthy alternative can be substituted. If you add all these small amounts of advice together it can amount to big changes in your diet. Consistent small changes can soon add up to large differences. - 30414

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