Knowing what food to eat and what to avoid to maintain a well-balanced diet not only can control your weight, but also save you from heart and blood vessel disease, therefore to prolong your life. A bad diet consists of a majority of high-fat processed foods, such as salty or sugary snacks, fast food and red meat. Eat a bad diet and heart disease is inevitable.
A low fat diet can, in fact, help you to enjoy the kind of over-all good health that makes life worth living. There are certain foods we should avoid in different foods group which may destroy our health and our heart.
Soups – All creamed soups are high in fat content. The commercially prepared ones are particularly fat-heavy, and since the fat cannot be readily removed from them, they should not be used. It is always a good idea to read the label carefully on any packaged product from which soup is being made.
Meats – Pork and pork products, bacon, and ham are also high in fat and cholesterol and should not be eaten, except at an occasional meal. Glandular organs such as sweetbreads, brains, kidneys, caviar, fish roe, and giblets are high in cholesterol and fat content, so should be avoided. But liver is an exception, because it is quite desirable as a valuable nutritional source of essential vitamins and minerals.
Fish – The fish we should avoid are: bass, bluefish, butterfish, deviled crab, eel, herring, mackerel, scalloped or fried oysters, pompano, salmon, sardines, shad, and trout which are high in fat content.
Poultry – Because duck and goose have a layer of fat just beneath their skin, so they are always considered a fatty meat which should be avoided.
Dairy Products – The following dairy products should be eliminated from your diet: whole milk, cream, butter, and cheeses such as American cheddar, Swiss, cream, creamed cottage, cheese spreads, Gruyere, Edam, Limberger, Liederkranz, Parmesan, Roquefort, and Yogurt made from whole milk, because they constitute a large portion of at home fat consumption of particularly harmful types of fat.
Eggs – Despite containing most of the minerals that the human body requires for health, egg yolks are exceptionally high in cholesterol and fat content which should be totally omitted from you diet.
Breads – As whole wheat bread is the healthiest, most nutritious form of the “staff of life”, the hot breads, pancakes, waffles, coffee cakes, muffins, buns, doughnuts, Danish pastry, sweet rolls all contain some appreciable amount of lard, butter, or egg yolk which should be considered to eat as less as you can.
Desserts – Fat-free sweets are great energy producers as well as comforting for that “sweet-tooth.” But all those made with butter, egg-yolks, or cream should not be consumed, such as pies, cakes, pastries, cookies, custards, eclairs, gingerbread, shortcake, and puddings.
Others – Other Foods should be avoided including avocados, coconuts, nuts, cholocate, cocoa, fat contained in the usual salad dressings, gravies, and sauces which are all very fatty. Animal fats, such as lard and suet, should particularly be avoided in cooking.
Frying should be completely eliminated in the preparation of foods, not only because of its high fat production, but also because of its unhealthy way of interfering with the normal digestion of foods and essential nutriments and vitamins, the irritating character and effect on the digestive tract of the fried fats, and the destruction of vitamins and essential food stuffs in the food that is fried. Even vegetable fats are best not used. An exception can be made for vegetable oils such as soya oil, cornseed oil, and cottonseed oils.
A wide choice of fat-free drinks is available to all. Alcohol is one fo those which has no fat content, so there are no restrictions on its use other than by the dictates of common sense and self-control. But don’t forget that the calories in liquors can easily mount up!
The low-fat, low-cholesterol diet will help protect you against heart and blood vessel disease. At the same time, it is a diet that will greatly improve your general state of health and increase your vitality.
