HOW TO CUT DOWN ON FATS?

Since fats contain more than twice as many calories to gram as carbohydrates and proteins, a low fat diet would seem to be a very sensible way to cut down on the calories in your daily meals. But this is only going to help you, if you make sure that the rest of your diet does not run out of control. The danger here lies in the fact that when you cut out on the fatty bit of your meals, you tend to feel hungry much sooner and if you succumb to your hunger pangs, you might well end up eating more before your next meal is due, and ruin your dietary schedule. We consume a large amount of fat in our diet actually 40% of our daily calorie intake is derived from fats.

Half of this is visible as the oil we cook our food in, the ghee on our paranthas and the butter we spread on the breakfast bread. The other half, however, is not so obvious; the margarine present in the cakes and biscuits, the fat in boiled eggs and the cream in our morning cup of tea or coffee. It is really not too difficult to reduce the fat content of a normal meal to about 25% removing the cream from your morning cup of milk, banishing fried items off the menu and avoiding ghee on the chapattis. But if we try to get below this, our diet becomes almost unpalatable because this would mean eliminating a variety of such necessary items of food as cheese, eggs and milk.