Healthy Eating in Holidays

Holiday season turns out to be a nightmare for those who are looking to lose weight or keep off surplus pounds. With all the festivities, it becomes difficult to keep away from high-calorie food, carbohydrate-loaded goodies and also alcohol. Isn’t it difficult to try and keep away from all the Christmas cakes and tasty foods? Isn’t it difficult to indulge in it?

People often indulge in these yummy foods and as a result face problems such as high blood sugar levels, weight gain and also high blood pressure. Avoiding all these foods is difficult at times, especially during holiday season. To overcome this problem we have come up with few proposals. There are few suggestions that will help you control you weight and waistline. read more

 

 

Knowing the Types of Fat You are Eating

To many people, fat is just no more than an unwanted deposit that the body stores when excess energy is available so that it may be used in future. But in reality, fat is another essential source of energy. Fat comes from a variety of products in our daily meals, these include butter, meat and oils. It is of equal importance to maintain only the required intake to make sure that you stay healthy, as too much of fat deposit means high levels of cholesterol in the body, which in turn is neither good for your heart nor your body.

Fats are one of those nutrients that enter our body as calories in food and enrich the body with Vitamins A, D, E and K. It also contains lonoliec acid, another important supplement and adds flavor to our food.

Triglycerides present in fats contain three groups of fatty acids including:

• Saturated fats

• Polyunsaturated fats

• Monounsaturated fats read more