Monday, January 19, 2009

The Common Misunderstanding of Low Diet

By Haiyan Lai-Heskin

Low diet means low fat intake in your daily life. But there is some common misunderstanding out there.

These are six basic necessities essential for normal health in food, proteins, carbohydrates, fats (which are also manufactured by the body), vitamins, minerals, and water. If you simply eat less or just cut fat out of you diet, you will lack in at least one of the essential nutrients.

People's daily intake are low in essential nutriments, minerals and other vital requirements, but too rich in fat as well as calories, refined sugars, starches, and oils in western counties.

Life threatening diseases are caused by the excessive intake of fats. This of course can lead to the shortening of life and crippling illnesses.

The arterial walls in your body can be high in cholesterol due to the amount of fat in your diet. The worst intake is animal fat from red meat which is high in fat content, this of course will increase your cholesterol level in your body. The blood is what transmits the cholesterol from the liver to fats in your system. We need to control this by keep in check the fat in our food.

Cutting down and keeping in control the fat content is a main priority in our diet. Omega-3 and polyunsaturated are the healthy fats and should be eaten in avocados,fish and olive oil. Abundant amounts of these type foods should be in your diet.

Both men and women who achieved a large weight loss of about 20 pounds on the low-fat diet, were estimated to have a life expectancy of double that of people on a regular diet.

It is very common that people on a low-fat or fat-free diet are most certainly free from heart attacks and strokes.

Base on the basic understanding of low diet, we conclude that a corrective low diet does not mean either starvation or the grim necessity of eating unpalatable foods.

Good healthy low diet increases vigour. Neither does it mean a loss of energy or a sharp reduction in poundage, unless you are overweight, in which case the excess fat is melted off. In fact, if you adhere to the low-fat, low-cholesterol diet, you will feel better; have more vigour, and firmer muscles than before. - 14915

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