Saturday, February 28, 2009

Almost Everyone Can Benefit From A Low Fat Diet

By Haiyan Lai-Heskin

300 million people worldwide are obese. Studies have shown that obesity and heart disease are inevitably linked. And more than half of all deaths occurring each year in the United States are heart attacks and strokes.

It's not only fashionable to lose your extra pounds - it could save your life. One of the reasons people are encouraged to lose weight, exercise regularly and make wiser food choices is to avoid obesity.

The the three most common causes of death and disablement is heart attack, heart failure, and stroke, and the worst thing about these is that people can go decades without any sign or symptoms until suddenly happens or drop dead.

Diet and weight are two powerful forces for health that you can control. If you are currently overweight, you should do something about diet. And you can lose excess (unhealthy) weight easily, safely by eliminating certain foods from your diet, by including others in the right amounts, and by the use of nutritional supplements, you can achieve at least a 50 per cent protection against heart attack.

The outstanding fats are being eaten daily in the United States and Europe are butter, eggs, whole milk, cream, meat, fish and poultry fats, and cheese in various combinations.

In these fats, per gram contain 9 calories, which is more than twice the amount of calories than protein or carbohydrate does at four calories each per gram.

Researchs show that the reduction of fat content in the national diet have many effect on the number of deaths from heart attack. The low fat diet proved to be effective in reducing weight and promoting general good health.

Strong evidence has shown by pathologists, doctors, and medical researchers that when the arteries were correspondingly high in the degree of damage or destruction by atherosclerosis, the blood cholesterol and fats are high. And when the blood levels of fat were low, the damage to heart and brain was also low.

There is only one safe and effective way to achieve the correct poundage and to keep it at that figure. That way is to follow a correct nutritional program, and to follow it consistently, one might almost say religiously.

Let us "eat to live, not live to eat." The low-fat diet holds great promise for everyone, whether the person has atherosclerosis or not. The low-fat way of life can be followed by anyone, anywhere, and it is simple, safe, effective. - 16650

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