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Consumer Focus: Combat Winter Weight Gain
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Eating Right This Winter
Exercise and diet are
an unbeatable team if you are trying to lose weight. But it's hard to find time
to exercise around the holidays, and even harder to watch what you eat when you
are tempted by holiday party fare.
Learn more
about:
Use these tips to
make better food choices during the
holidays - and throughout the year. Remember, while a pound or two might not
seem like much, this extra weight can accumulate through the years and
contribute to obesity later in life. Using these tips, in combination with
regular
exercise, will help you make it to spring in fine shape.
Posted: December 16, 2002
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Tips on
Eating Right
- Cut down on your
portion sizes and make healthy substitutes. For example, fruit makes a great
low fat, high fiber dessert.
- Stick with
low-fat, high fiber entrees such as steamed vegetables, grilled or broiled lean
meats, fish, and turkey and chicken without the skin.
- Choose water and
seltzer more often. Both are healthy, no-calorie beverages that can quench your
thirst and help you feel full.
- For more taste,
there are plenty of flavored waters on the market, just read the label to
ensure that it's a no-calorie or low calorie beverage.
- Seltzer mixed with
fruit juices or hot apple cider are refreshing and colorful alternatives to
higher calorie holiday beverages, like soda and egg nog.
- Use the nutrition facts on
food labels to get necessary nutrients and cut calories.
- Avoid foods that
will comprise more than 20% of your fat for the day. Look at the example in
this link. This
particular brand of macaroni and cheese, at 18%, is high in fat.
- Eating too much
fat may also increase your risk of certain chronic diseases, like heart
disease, some cancers
, or high blood
pressure.
- Pay attention to
serving sizes. Often, what we think of as one serving is really two or
more!
- Do not skip meals
or deprive yourself of food altogether. Skipping meals may cause you to eat
more next meal because you will feel more hungry than usual.
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