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A Few Tips to Start a Healthy Diet
In today’s fast world, to manage a healthy nutrition and safe life is more and more difficult every day. That is why people should learn to be more organized and disciplined with regard to food. To have a healthy diet takes much more than to stop eating fast food, fat or meat. In order to organize your alimentation, the first step is to be well-informed about the special characteristics each food group possess, and how they will help you.
Vegetables, grains, fruits and legumes have no fat and are usually low in cholesterol. Most of them are good providers of vitamins, complex carbohydrates and dietary fibers, which are highly recommended by the American Heart Association. Moreover, they suggest individuals should eat around 25 to 30 grams of those foods daily. Nevertheless, when cooked, vegetables as well as grains and legumes, cholesterol and saturated fats are added.
On the other hand, canned and/or preserved vegetables often possess added sodium, which leads to high blood pressure. Seeds and nuts are usually very high in calories and fat, but do not have cholesterol and are excellent providers of protein. Foods like coconut, avocados and olives are high in saturated fat and calories. Therefore, people must try to eat them once in a while so that they do not get much fat from cholesterol.
Regarding cooking methods or ingredients, it is important to take into account fats and oils. There are mainly three major kinds of oils: seed/corn oils, peanut oils and vegetable oils. Seed and corn oils are quite low in saturated fatty acid, which is the reason why they must be used only in limited amounts for dressings. Peanut oils are more saturated in fatty acids; therefore, they must be used sparingly for flavoring and never as major cooking oils. Vegetable oils are hydrogenated oils. They are usually contained in margarines and/or shortenings, and they are highly recommended for cooking. By only taking these few advices into account when preparing your food, you will have a good starting point for a healthy life.
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