Dietary Guidelines for Over Weight

Here are some simple and dos and don’ts that one can adhere to:

Do’s
  • Increase the quantity of fruits and vegetables and low calorie foods.
  • Eat tomato in the morning and in salad. Make it a regular habit.
  • Mint is very beneficial in losing weight. Have some salads, vegetables with it.
  • Have raw or cooked cabbage as it inhibits the conversion of sugar and other carbohydrates into fat.
  • Include a source of vitamin B-12 in your diet.
  • Use vegetable oil instead of butter or stick margarine.
  • Prefer eating steam, boiled, microwave vegetables
  • Eat less salty foods, alcohol, dairy products, sugar, margarine
  • Replace whole milk with skim or low fat milk for your preparation
  • Roast, bake or boil meat, fish, to destroy all the fat present

Don’ts
  • Avoid intake of too much salt as it may be a factor for increasing body weight.
  • All kinds of milk products-cheese, butter, and non-vegetarian foods should be avoided as they are rich in fat. Be sufficient with twice a glass of milk.
  • Avoid rice and potato, which contain a lot of carbohydrates. Among cereals wheat is good.
  • Avoid high calorie foods like chocolates, ice cream, sweets, butter, heavy refined foods which have high calories.
  • Avoid meals when under stress or tension.
  • Stop taking bread prepared with wheat alone as the key ingredient. An ideal mixture must consist of whole grams flour and soyabeans.

By shivesh