Most foods contain several different kinds of fats — including saturated, polyunsaturated, monounsaturated and trans fats — and some kinds are better for your health than others are. You don’t need to completely eliminate all fats from your meals. Instead, choose the healthier types of fats and enjoy them in moderation. Healthy fats When choosing… Continue reading
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Which types of fat are the best for our health
Limit fat in your diet, but don’t try to cut it out completely. Focus on reducing foods high in saturated fat, trans fat and cholesterol, and select more foods made with unsaturated fats. Consider these tips when making your choices: • Saute with olive oil instead of butter. • Use olive oil in salad dressings… Continue reading
Helps your heart: Eat more fish
If you’re worried about heart disease — whether you want to avoid it, or you already have it and want to get healthier — eating one to two servings of fish a week could reduce your risk of dying of a heart attack by a third or more. Doctors have long recognized that the unsaturated… Continue reading
A high protein diet or the miracle of Pierre Dukan
Recently high protein diet meal plans have gained quite a following with their “all you can eat”, meat filled menus. They come in many flavours, each focusing on a specific variation of an upside down food pyramid. The latest of these is the low carbohydrate, low fat, and high protein Dukan diet. Dukan Diet Origins… Continue reading
10 ways to drop excess winter weight
Looking for the easiest way to lose weight? Of course you are! Who has the time to sift through all of the diet programs you could be trying this month to lose weight? And honestly, dropping those winter pounds doesn’t have to be so difficult. Thanks to That’s Fit, I’ve had the pleasure of reviewing… Continue reading
Mediterranean diet prevents stomach cancer
A new study published on Dec 9 in the online journal American Journal of Clinical Nutrition has associated use of Mediterranean diet with a lower risk of stomach or gastric cancer. The finding may suggest that either the Mediterranean diet itself helps protect against stomach cancer or conversely, that other diets may boost the risk… Continue reading