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Ten Tips to Cut Back the Fat: Mayo Clinic Recommendations
Ten Tips to Cut Back the Fat: Mayo Clinic Recommendations -- Posted by Sweet Zombie Jesus! on 06-10-05 05:57
Ten Tips to Cut Back the Fat: Mayo Clinic
The June issue of Mayo Clinic Health Letter offers 10 tips to help cut
back on fat. You may cite this publication as often as you wish.
Weight-loss fads come and go. But no matter what you hear, limiting fat
in your diet, particularly saturated fat and trans fat -- is one of the
most important diet changes most Americans can make for optimum health.
1) Cool it -- Chill soups, gravies and stews, then skim off the fat
that floats to the top.
2) Buy skim -- Skim milk may taste thinner at first, but if you use it
regularly, your tastes should adapt. Try other dairy products such as
fat-free yogurt, reduced-fat or fat-free cheeses and low-fat or
fat-free sour cream and cream cheese.
3) Cook smart -- Limit using oils or butter for frying. Instead saut=E9
or stir-fry foods in a small amount of vegetable broth or cooking wine.
Try baking, broiling, steaming, poaching or grilling instead of frying.
4) No yolk -- With eggs, it's the yolk that contains virtually all of
the fat and cholesterol. Try using egg substitutes. Or, in most
recipes, you can use two egg whites instead of one whole egg.
5) Cut butter and margarine -- Use apple, pumpkin or other fruit
butters on breads instead. Try fat-free, butter-flavored spreads or
sprinkles. For baking, substitute unsweetened applesauce, prune puree
or a commercial baking substitute for half of the butter, shortening or
oil in your recipe.
6) Top it off -- Use fat-free salad dressing to add zip to salads or
vegetables. Plain, fat-free yogurt can be used in sauces for pasta,
salads and sandwiches. Top bagels with fat-free cream cheese.
7) Bean protein -- For a meal or two a week, use beans or legumes
instead of meat in a salad, soup or as the main dish.
8) Lean on meat -- Use extra-lean ground beef, ground chicken or ground
turkey. Instead of bacon, use Canadian bacon or prosciutto, a lean
Italian ham. Buy beef labeled "select" instead of "choice" or
"prime." Trim all fat from meat cuts and remove chicken skin,
before or after cooking.
9) Meat substitutes -- Meatless products, such as imitation hot dogs,
bacon, burgers and sausage are available at many grocery stores. They
often contain less fat -- especially saturated fat -- than is contained
in an equivalent portion of meat.
10) Room for dessert -- Use fat-free ice cream, frozen yogurt, sherbet
or sorbet and top with berries or a fat-free nondairy whipped topping.
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