Most of us eat at restaurants for a variety of reasons; time and convenience are the most common motives. Below is a prepared list of quick tips for eating out of your home. If you eat healthy food or sensible portions, that you like, you can stick with eating healthy for life. Your portions should be spaced out over the course of the day. Water should be a part of every meal. After you eat, your stomach should be half full, or less, with food. For every two parts of food consumed, you should drink one part water. Leave your stomach at least one quarter empty for movement of air. When eating at a restaurant, eat half a portion, maximum, and wait five or ten minutes. Restaurant portions are commonly two to four meals on a single or double plate. This is way too much to consume at a single sitting and you may find out that, once you pause and sip your drink, you are already full. In the Providence, RI area, there are some restaurants where the single portions could feed a family of four. No wonder a man of 200 lbs. is now considered thin. Do not make comparisons to other people. Eat to live and enjoy your food, but do not use someone else's over indulgence as an excuse for your own. Establish control over your appetite. Most of us feel guilty if we don't finish a plate. This is usually conditioning from your childhood. Bury your guilty past and have the rest ?wrapped to go.? Always eat something for breakfast and never ?skip it.? When you skip breakfast, you will over-consume for it, later in the day. Eat slowly and thoroughly chew your food. Make sure your last meal, or last ?snack? of the day, is small and nutritionally dense. Examples: Cereal with fruit, vegetable salad with olive oil and balsamic vinegar, rice with vegetables, and light popcorn, without the extra butter and salt. For those who eat meat or fish: turkey, chicken, or salmon salad on top of fresh greens. In the later part of your day, skip desserts, sugary cereals, bread, and second portions. If you absolutely must have sugar: Eat fruit, strawberries with yogurt or low fat cottage cheese, fruit with rice, or almonds with yogurt. If you must have coffee or alcohol, beware that these should be consumed in extreme moderation. Both substances will dehydrate your body, and you will have to drink extra water to make up for it. Wine is much better than hard alcohol, but one or two glasses a day is the limit. Coffee consumption should be held to the same guidelines (one or two a day). Remember that green tea is a good substitute for coffee. Nutritious food is not an excuse for over indulgence. Even when you eat all the right things, the volume consumed should be in moderation. It will take a lot of Sun Salutations, and Yoga classes, to make up for overeating anything. Make your meal a meditation. Pause every few minutes, think about the amount you have eaten, be thankful for your life, and breathe. ? Copyright 2005 ? Paul Jerard / Aura Publications
It seems that saturated fat is not good for us so we should consider eating more fruit, vegetables and whole grains and less saturated fat. The cholesterol is not good for the blood vessels as it blocks the way the blood flows. Doctors recommend a low cholesterol diet and some of the suitable aliments are the egg white and the food from plant.
Foods which contain fiber are good for our body so we should eat more bread, grains, cereals, pasta, fruits and vegetables in order to bring the right amount of fiber for our organism.
When buying an aliment you should always check out the label and you should pick only those aliments which are ?low fat?, ?low saturated fat?, ?fat-free? and ?low calorie?.
In order to protect the heart system, try to eat less salty foods, drink less alcohol, eat more vegetables, pasta and grains than meat and make sure your protein intake assures 15% of your calorie needs.
When eating meat it is best to avoid frying it so try to broil, bake, steam or poach the fish, poultry or other meats as these procedures protect your heart. Also, when ordering a desert try to keep away from those that are very sweet and eat only low fat deserts like fruit juice, low fat yoghurt or fruit ice.
You should not eat what you do not like, try to make a list of the good aliments you enjoy eating and you will see that you can hold on to a right diet. Also, by keeping an active lifestyle, by exercising, by keeping your weight under control, and avoiding stress you will also keep your heart healthy.
The right diet for a healthy living is that which contains low fat aliments. Try to keep that in mind when going shopping and always check the labels to see if they correspond to this criterion. The most indicated aliments are fruits and vegetables and whole grain foods. Try to avoid aliments which contain saturated fats and partially hydrogenated vegetable oils as they will only raise the level of bad cholesterol in your blood.
If you like cooking then you should prepare turkey or chicken meals instead of red meat meals and so you will keep the cholesterol away from you and your family. The best oils to cook with are the olive and canola oils as they are high in monounsaturated fats and keep the level of cholesterol in blood low.
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