| Could your low fat diet be doing you more harm than | | | | LOADED with empty calories!), and sugar. |
| good? You have two options when buying food - | | | | It's best to go back to basics, with meat and fish if its |
| normal or low fat, if you struggle with your weight I'm | | | | free to run around, fly, swim in the open water then it |
| guessing you'll go for the low fat option every time? | | | | can be eaten. |
| Contrary to what we've been conditioned to believe | | | | Fruit and vegetables: as long as its been farmed |
| these last few decades, low fat is not necessarily the | | | | without the use of pesticides and other chemicals, is as |
| best option. When a product is advertised as low fat it | | | | fresh and in season as possible it can be eaten!! |
| generally means that it will have gone through a lot of | | | | Nuts are great but only in moderation because they |
| process to remove the fat, by doing these food | | | | are high in fat and calories, one or two small handfuls is |
| manufacturers generally strip the fat and replace it | | | | great but no more because you will get fat!! |
| with sugar or sweeteners which when processed will | | | | Fluids: water and herbal teas are the best, two or |
| be stored as fat anyway! | | | | three cups of tea/coffee is ok too. |
| We all tend to put too much trust into the foods that | | | | The next time you reach for that low fat bag of crisps, |
| we eat without really checking the labels, if you do | | | | your 'healthy' breakfast cereal or the diet coke, just |
| check the labels on everything you eat you can't go | | | | have a good look at the label; it could be doing you |
| wrong. If your on a quest for fat loss then you want to | | | | more harm than good!! If you can't pronounce the |
| be cutting out processed foods, foods containing | | | | ingredient it's probably best not to put it into your body!! |
| wheat flour, alcohol (this is a big one alcohol is | | | | |