Weight Loss Diet Information

With a weight loss diet it is important to minimise your calorie intake but maintain a healthy balanced diet. What you eat has to be burn't and used otherwise the unused calories will be stored as fat.

Your weight loss diet need not be unpleasant but you do need to cut back on some high calorie foods. Here we will show you what to avoid and the best foods to eat as part of a healthy balanced weight loss diet.

Calories

Calories are the popular way to describe the energy content of a particular food. The food label will show a figure for kcal which is the number of calories in the food.

Healthy Diet

People's diet in the Western world tends to consist of low-fibre food which is high in animal fats and sugar. Also, the diet may be unbalanced and lacking in certain vitamins. The Western world's diet is a major cause of disease and excessive consumption is causing the obesity epidemic.

Our digestive system has evolved to consume a large quantity of vegetable fibres, occasional meat and a small amount of sugar. So a healthy diet would involve reduced intake of animal fat, avoidance of sweets and sugar with increased consumption of vegetables, cereals and pulses.

Balanced Diet

A balanced diet consists of adequate quantities of the following:

Just enough of a sensible, balanced diet is good for your health. However, where too much food is consumbed where it is not all burn't up to provide energy results in the accumulation of body fat. Even a small amount of overating over time can lead to obesity (20% surplus body weight for your height and build).

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