Low-fat foods

If you follow a diet during physical training and sports, or if you want to quickly lose weight, it is very important to include in your daily diet products that provide your body with the necessary energy, but will not deliver an excessive amount of calories. The menu should be designed in such a way that the energy for performing physical exercises mainly supplied carbohydrates (there are many of them in various types of cereals, bread, potatoes). But the content of fats in food should be somewhat limited because of their very high caloric value. Therefore, preferably low-fat foods are preferably included in the diet.

So which foods are low in fat? Let's start with meat. It is best to choose such varieties as beef, rabbit meat, chicken meat. Meat of elk is very suitable for preparing dietary foods, since it is characterized by a high content of proteins necessary for the human body and at the same time a very low fat content - only 1.7 grams of fat per 100 grams of meat (for comparison: 100 grams of pork contains 33-49 grams of fat ). A relatively small content of fats is noted in such by-products as the liver, kidneys, lungs, heart.

Most varieties of sausages contain a fairly decent amount of fats, an average of 20 - 40 grams per 100 grams of product. Therefore, these products are unlikely to be included in the diet menu of a slimming person.

For cooking fish, crucian, pollock, herring, cod, hake, pike are most suitable. If you want to lose weight by reducing the caloric content of the diet, it is undesirable to prepare dishes from varieties of fish with a high fat content - eel, mackerel, halibut.

From dairy products it is desirable to choose varieties with low fat content (for example, to buy sour cream 10% fat instead of the usual with 20-25% fat) or completely fat-free products (at present practically in every grocery store you can find low-fat milk, yogurt, cottage cheese).

All the available grades of bread and bakery products are characterized by a low fat content - about 1 to 1.5 grams per 100 grams of product. Approximately the same picture is observed for cereals - basically the fat content in them does not exceed 1 to 3 grams per 100 grams of product.

But vegetables and fruits can be eaten almost without restriction and without fear of gaining excess weight - almost all of them contain less than one gram of fat per 100 g of product. Some restrictions should be allowed only for potatoes, and even not because of the presence of fats (their content in tubers is also very low - only 0.4 grams per 100 grams of product), but because of the high content of starch. This carbohydrate is easily absorbed by our body, so eating a large amount of potatoes can lead to the formation of excess body weight.

Adherence to all the above recommendations will help you successfully lose excess pounds by including in the menu dishes from foods low in fat.