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Your diet plays a major role in determning how healthy you
will be. So make sure you eat the right foods, at the right
time.
The very word 'diet' can make the bravest of us quake
in fear, especially those of us who equate diet with starving.
This diet doesn't require that you starve. In fact, you can
eat all you want, as long as you eat the right stuff. 
And what is this 'right stuff' of which you can
eat any amount?
The answer is green vegetables. Needless to say, if you cook
the vegetables in oil, you're not going to get very far with
your weight loss plan. Most Indians don't believe that it
is possible to cook a meal without using a whole lot of oil.
Nothing can be further from the truth. Vegetables taste great
when they are saut?, using very little oil. And if you must
use oil, try and use extra virgin olive oil.
The greatest gift you can give your family is a wholesome
diet. You can eat tasty and unhealthy, and you can eat tasty
and healthy. Most of us opt for the tasty and unhealthy because
it seems to be the easiest option. Making the right, healthy
choice will by far impact our health, and our weight, favourably.
Eat a variety of foods. Don't stick to the same five vegetables
and dals all the time! By eating various foods, you are likely
to meet a much broader range of nutritional requirements.
In addition, if you eat something which you eat very seldom,
your family is probably not going to mind if it is cooked
in a different way, and not cooked in oil.
Always opt for food that is produced locally, and that is
in season. Buying foods transported from far really makes
no sense. In the first place, it is far more expensive. In
the second place, since it comes from far, it is possible
that it is packed with preservatives. Stay away from packaged
foods. They have very little food value, and are packed with
fats, salt and sugar. The lower processed the food, the better
the food value. It is better to prepare food from scratch.
Add spices to compensate for the lack of oil in your food.
However, in this article we are not just concerned
about eating healthy. We also want to know what we should
avoid, in order to lose weight.
Stay away from sugar. This is possibly the hardest requirement
of all, but it is a must if you are serious about losing weight.
It may be hard for you to deprive yourself of sweet indefinitely,
and it may not work, so the best thing to do would be to set
a target for yourself. Decide that you will not eat anything
that has sugar in it, for a month. If you don't think you
can do this, opt for a saccharine-free sugar substitute. Try
Sugarite, which is sugar without the calories, or Stugar,
which is a natural sweeter made from a South American plant,
and has around 1 calorie per teaspoon as opposed to 20 calories
in a spoon of sugar.
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