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Additional information: All you can eat?
| Last updated: 25.08.04 |
The best way to feel good about your body and your blood fat levels is to pick and choose - buffet-style - what suits you best. General sound advice includes:
- Eat more fibre (e.g. whole grains, beans, pulses, most fruits and vegetables).
- Eat fewer refined carbohydrates (e.g. white bread, cakes, pizza).
- Reduce and replace consumption of saturated fats (e.g. all fat derived from animals and coconuts) and trans fats (e.g. processed cakes and biscuits, snack foods, takeaway food) with more beneficial monounsaturated fats (e.g. olive oil, avocado, almonds, macadamia nuts) and polyunsaturated fats (nuts and seeds, sunflower oil, safflower oil, soybean oil, and foods rich in omega-3).
- Eat more fish, which contains omega-3 fatty acids (e.g. salmon, tuna, sardines, mackerel).
- Do regular exercise – either moderate aerobic exercise (like brisk walking or swimming) or resistance exercise (like weight training) which strengthens your muscles – but don’t overdo either.
- Quit smoking!