5 Ways to Reduce Saturated Fat From Your Diet
Especially if you are trying out one of the popular high-protein, low-carbohydrate diets, you need to be watchful for saturated fat in your diet. Try these tips for decreasing your saturated fat in ...
Cutting Down on Sour Cream Fat
We all know that dairy products can be good for you, but it's also true that the dairy fat you find in butter, milk, and cheese is saturated'so sometimes it's necessary to switch to trans-free margari ...
Breast Cancer and the Low-Fat Diet
The National Institute of Health (NIH) has found that decreasing total fat intake may make a minimal impression on reducing the risk of breast cancer, and has no effect on the risk of colorectal cance ...
NYC ban on trans fat
It’s sweet that the government wants us to live longer so we can pay more taxes, but shouldn’t we be responsible for our own health? Dietary trans fat have come under scrutiny in the past few years d ...
The Good, Bad and Ugly of Nutrition: Fats
DAIRY: Good: Raw goat cheese, nonfat cottage cheese, kefir, unsweetened yogurt, raw/skim milk, buttermilk, rice and soy milk. Bad: All soft cheeses, pasteurized/artificially colored cheeses, ice c ...
Tips for vegetarians from mypyramid.gov
Tips for Vegetarians
Build meals around protein sources that are naturally low in fat, such as beans, lentils, and rice. Don’t overload meals with high-fat cheeses to replace the meat.
Calcium-fo ...
Other Healthy Tips
OKay, so you are going to BBQ, because that is a great American pasttime and its SuperBowl Weekend.
Because of all the grilling of meats this weekend, many of us tend to add salt. Maybe you can try s ...
Cholesterol
Your Cholesterol Level Doesn’t Depend on How Much Cholesterol You Eat
I’ll never forget the first time I got my cholesterol tested. How surprised was I, a relatively healthy and nutriti ...
Don't Scream After Ice Cream
Traditional ice cream is made with heavy cream, which is loaded with saturated (bad) fat, sometimes as much as 10 grams per half cup! Add in the trans fat (also bad) found in the cookie and chocolat ...
Chinese restaurants a nutritionist's nightmare, group says
The typical Chinese restaurant menu is a sea of nutritional no-nos, a consumer group has found.
A plate of General Tso's chicken, for example, is loaded with about 40 percent more sodium and more tha ...
