The Complete Idiot's Guide to Healthy Weight Loss by Lucy Beale

Author:Lucy Beale
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: DK Publishing
Published: 2010-03-01T00:00:00+00:00

The Least You Need to Know • Low-calorie eating plans have been used for more than 50 years for weight loss.

• You can eat about 1,500 calories a day to lose weight.

• If you’re very active, you may be able to add an additional 300 calories a day and still lose weight.

Chapter 16

The Low-Fat Eating Plan

In This Chapter • When eating low-fat is recommended

• Keeping your fat intake between 20 and 30 percent

• Eating wholesome low-fat foods

• Avoiding low-fat mistakes

Extreme low-fat diets were all the rage more than 10 years ago when researchers found that people with heart disease and high cholesterol had a build-up of fat in their arteries. The underlying assumption was that dietary fat caused clogged arteries.

Fast forward to the present. Eating high amounts of dietary fat is only one factor in heart disease. Some other factors are a high intake of starchy foods, high insulin and cortisol levels in the blood, lack of exercise, and a lack of Essential Fatty Acids in a person’s diet.

Today, many medical practitioners and dietitians recommend eating low-fat, so this chapter gives you some ideas of what to eat if you need to eat low-fat meals.

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