What Foods To Avoid To Control Your Weight-Healthy Living Part 8

Knowing what food to eat and what to avoid to maintain a well-balanced diet not only can control your weight, but also save you from heart and blood vessel disease, therefore to prolong your life. A bad diet consists of a majority of high-fat processed foods, such as salty or sugary snacks, fast food and red meat. Eat a bad diet and heart disease is inevitable.

There are certain foods we should avoid in different foods group which may destroy our health and our heart. By eliminating certain foods from your diet, including others in the right amounts, you can achieve at least a 50 per cent protection against heart attack.

Soups - Soup is a fantastic convenience food: easy to make, filling and low in calories. But We should avoid all creamed soups, because they are high in fat content. The commercially prepared ones are particularly fat-heavy, and since the fat cannot be readily removed from them, they should not be used.

Meats - Glandular organs such as sweetbreads, brains, kidneys, caviar, fish roe, and giblets are high in cholesterol and fat content, so should be avoided. Pork and pork products, bacon, and ham are also high in fat and cholesterol and should not be eaten, except at an occasional meal. But liver is an exception to the list of glandular organs to be avoided.

Fish - The fish we should avoid are: bass, bluefish, butterfish, deviled crab, eel, herring, mackerel, scalloped or fried oysters, pompano, salmon, sardines, shad, and trout which are high in fat content.

Poultry - Because duck and goose have a layer of fat just beneath their skin, so they are always considered a fatty meat which should be avoided.

Dairy Products - Dairy products constitute a large portion of at home fat consumption of particularly harmful types of fat, especially in whole milk, cream, butter, and cheeses. So the following dairy products should be eliminated from your diet: American cheddar, Swiss, cream, creamed cottage, cheese spreads, Gruyere, Edam, Limberger, Liederkranz, Parmesan, Roquefort, and Yogurt made from whole milk.

Eggs - Despite containing most of the minerals that the human body requires for health, egg yolks are exceptionally high in cholesterol and fat content which should be totally omitted from you diet.

Breads - As whole wheat bread is the healthiest, most nutritious form of the “staff of life”, the hot breads, pancakes, waffles, coffee cakes, muffins, buns, doughnuts, Danish pastry, sweet rolls all contain some appreciable amount of lard, butter, or egg yolk which should be considered to eat as less as you can.

Desserts - Desserts are great energy producers, but high in calories because of sugar content. Notoriously high in fat and cholesterol are ice-cream, parfaits, and frozen creams. So all those made with butter, egg-yolks, or cream should not be consumed, such as pies, cakes, pastries, cookies, custards, eclairs, gingerbread, shortcake, and puddings.

Others - Other Foods should be avoided including avocados, coconuts, nuts, cholocate, cocoa, fat contained in the usual salad dressings, gravies, and sauces which are all very fatty. Animal fats, such as lard and suet, should particularly be avoided in cooking.

Frying foods is a very unhealthy way to interfere with the normal digestion of foods and essential nutriments and vitamins. Frying should be completely eliminated in the preparation of foods, not only because of its high fat production, but also because the irritating character and effect on the digestive tract of the fried fats, and the destruction of vitamins and essential food stuffs in the food that is fried. Even vegetable fats are best not used. Despite of that, vegetable oils such as soya oil, cornseed oil, and cottonseed oils are exceptions.

Alcohol has no fat content, so there are no restrictions on its use other than by the dictates of common sense and self-control. Don’t forget that the calories in liquors can easily mount up!

To add more years to your life by keeping your weight down on low-fat, low-cholesterol diet. As the studies have shown that in the degenerative diseases of the heart and blood vessels, diet is the key; it is the difference between active good health and dangerous illness.