Low fat Recipes

Overweight or obese people have a greater risk of dying from heart disease even if they have normal blood pressure and cholesterol. Among those with normal blood pressure and cholesterol, obese people were 43% more likely to die of heart disease after age 65 than people whose weight was considered to be normal, and four times more likely to be hospitalized because of heart disease, they were also 11 times more likely to die from diabetes, and eight times more likely to be hospitalized for problems related to diabetes.

If you read all this carefully, it is a little scary, isn’t it? This doesn’t mean that from now on you must stop eating thing you liked, some dietary fat is needed for good health. Fats supply energy, essential fatty acids and promote absorption of the fat-soluble vitamins A, D, E, and K. Most people are aware that high levels of saturated fat and cholesterol in the diet are linked to increased blood cholesterol levels and a greater risk for heart disease, so more people are now eating less fat, saturated fat, and cholesterol-rich foods than in the recent past and fewer people are dying from the most common form of heart disease. Still, many people continue to eat high-fat diets, the number of overweight people has increased and the risk of heart disease and certain cancers remains high. This emphasizes the continued importance of choosing a diet with less total fat, saturated fat, and cholesterol. Reducing saturated fat to less than 10 % of calories will help you lower your blood cholesterol level. Olive and canola oils are particularly high in monounsaturated fats; most other vegetable oils, nuts, and high-fat fish are good sources of polyunsaturated fats, both being unsaturated, reduce blood cholesterol when they replace saturated fats in the diet.

The body makes the cholesterol it requires, in addition, cholesterol is obtained from food. Dietary cholesterol comes from animal sources such as egg yolks, meat (especially organ meat), poultry, fish, and higher fat milk products. Many of these foods are also rich in saturated fats. Choosing foods with less cholesterol and saturated fat, eating more grain products, vegetables and fruits will help lower your blood cholesterol levels.

Try a little Eastern European flavor with this creamy yet low fat Hungarian-style Chicken Paprikash, grab the ground beef but make sure it’s extra lean, pick up some skinless chicken or a ready-cooked rotisserie chicken, choose whole grain pastas and rice, throw in more vegetables, even if it’s an extra pack or two of frozen ones or the canned variety, pick up some fruit, order beef tacos. The variety of your daily menu stays the same; all you get rid of are some “bad” carbs and some extra pounds.