Monday, March 15, 2010

A guide to healthy cuisine

Whether you are cooking for two or just for yourself, understand guide for healthy cooking will be very important and ensure that you enter and stay in optimum health. There are lots of different things you can do to change your diet and start eating healthier, but to get started, you just need to learn the basics, which will be discussed here. 

How to Cook Healthier 

One of the first and easiest ways to start cooking, is to see how much cooking oil you use. Most people are not really aware of how often and how much cooking oil they use and by switching to canola oil and limit the amount you use, right there alone you will take a lot of fat out of your diet. 

Another great cooking tip is to limit your intake of salt. Stop adding salt to all your food, and not only will this help with your cooking, but also it will allow you to really enjoy the taste of food itself rather than spices that you are stocking it. 

Even for healthy cooking, you want to add vegetables, whenever and wherever you can. Half the time, even when you add vegetables, you will not feel it. Experiment with more vegetable variety to your salad, so instead of just using ordinary salad, mixing it up with some arugula and other greens green. 

You will get more vegetable servings a day, plus you will have more variety and will not be so bored of your meals so easily. 

Another cooking tip is to reduce fat in your home baked treats, and you can do this by replacing applesace, pureed prunes, and elements of the same in your treats rather than sugar or sweetener. This will cut a large proportion of fat from your diet, and will ensure that you eat as healthily as possible. 

Now if you really want to get out of it with the best possible results, the best things you can do is talk to a nutritionist. They will be able to personally customize your diet and make sure you eat all the right things. 

Remember that you can eat as healthily as you want, but without regular exercise, you just will not be able to get in shape.

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