Facts About Fats
Fat reducing diets have become very popular and are being regularly recommended. The reason behind it is very clear-fear of cholesterol, blood sugar, heart ailments the list continues. Also fatty food has almost twice amount of calories per gram, in comparison to carbohydrates or proteins.
A gram of fat has 9 calories while a gram of carbohydrate or protein has 4 calories. A high fat diet leads to excessive weight gain, which paves a platform to many more diseases to follow.
One must watch the amount of calories been intaken. Make sure that it is appropriate to your lifestyle. Additional calories even from fat free, Trans fat free and low fat foods gets stored in your body as fat. That’s why even after replacing your high fat diet with low fat diet; you seem to continue increase in your body weight.
To reduce weight regular exercises are equally important as diet. They both go hand in hand.
An adult‘s fat intake is 20-35% of total daily calories, which is approximately 45-76gms a day, if you take in 2000 calories a day.
Health experts are of the opinion that “trans fats” must be avoided from a regular diet, as this fat converts an unsaturated healthy liquid fat into an unhealthy solid fat. Although this tends to have a longer shelf life for the food items, they tend to shorten your life instead.
It could cause massive heart attacks. Therefore, it I strongly recommended to be avoided.
Discover about the foods you eat. Check the fat and calorie listing given on the carton of the food. The calorie listing of individual food items are available on internet, and even in your local library.
The nutritional labels on the food packs indicate the number of grams per serving and calories per serving. It also shows the fat content in each serving. For e.g. If the daily percentage of fat provided in each serving is 20%, it means it serves 20% of your total fat requirement for the day. Thus, always choose low fat percentage food products.
