When embarking on a fitness plan, whether it be for a particular activity or increasing muscle, such as body building, it is vital to address your diet. Although many sports diet programs look at and give advice about particular foods like high protein foods, it is important to eat healthily.
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:
Particular foods to buy:
Find out if there are alternatives to the food you normally buy by checking the labels and choosing low saturated fat ones.
If you are buying poultry such as chicken or turkey, buy it without the skin on.
Lower fat content foods often come in fish or vegetarian alternatives.
Choose low fat varieties of dairy foods, such as semi-skimmed milk and low-fat yoghurts.
If you are buying a pie, buy one with only one crust at the top.
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:
Use unsaturated oils instead of unhealthy saturated oils. Sunflower, rapeseed and olive oil are popular types. 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 away. Remove any fat from the meat to lower the fat content.
Using a non-stick pan will allow you to avoid using oil or fat altogether.
Used low fat spreads when making sandwiches or when adding to foods such as mashed potatoes.
If you are on a fitness regime then more healthy alternatives can often be substituted. Adding all these small bits of advice together can amount to large differences in your diet which can significantly lower your fat intake. A number of small changes, regularly can soon add up to big changes. - 32002
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:
Particular foods to buy:
Find out if there are alternatives to the food you normally buy by checking the labels and choosing low saturated fat ones.
If you are buying poultry such as chicken or turkey, buy it without the skin on.
Lower fat content foods often come in fish or vegetarian alternatives.
Choose low fat varieties of dairy foods, such as semi-skimmed milk and low-fat yoghurts.
If you are buying a pie, buy one with only one crust at the top.
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:
Use unsaturated oils instead of unhealthy saturated oils. Sunflower, rapeseed and olive oil are popular types. 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 away. Remove any fat from the meat to lower the fat content.
Using a non-stick pan will allow you to avoid using oil or fat altogether.
Used low fat spreads when making sandwiches or when adding to foods such as mashed potatoes.
If you are on a fitness regime then more healthy alternatives can often be substituted. Adding all these small bits of advice together can amount to large differences in your diet which can significantly lower your fat intake. A number of small changes, regularly can soon add up to big changes. - 32002
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