Dieting By Knowing Your Dairy Products!

This food group includes milk, cheese, yogurt and fromage frais. Calcium fortified soya alternatives to milk can also be included. This group does not include butter, eggs and cream as these fall into other food groups.

Try to eat 2-3 servings a day. A serving of milk is a 200ml glass, a serving of yogurt is a small pot (150g), a serving of cheese is 30g (matchbox size). Choose lower fat versions whenever you can, such as semi-skimmed milk, low fat yogurt and reduced fat cheese.

These foods provide:

Calcium: needed for development and maintenance of healthy bones
Zinc: required for tissue growth and repair
Protein: needed for growth and repair, and also a source of energy
Vitamin B12: required for blood cells and nerve function
Vitamin B2: needed for the release of energy from carbohydrates and protein
Vitamin A: (in whole milk products) for growth, development and eyesight

Healthy eating tips

• Choose low fat milk i.e. semi-skimmed or skimmed milk
• Choose low fat yogurts and reduced fat cheeses

Meat and Alternatives

This food group includes meat, poultry, fish, eggs and alternatives (see below). Meat products include bacon, salami, sausages, beefburgers and paté. Fish includes frozen and canned fish such as sardines and tuna, fish fingers and fish cakes.

Proteins are required for growth and repair. Proteins contain Carbon, Hydrogen, Oxygen, Nitrogen and sometimes Sulphur. Proteins are very large molecules, so they cannot get directly into our blood; they must be turned into amino-acids by the digestive system. There are over 20 different amino-acids. Our bodies can turn the amino-acids back into protein. When our cells do this they have to put the amino-acids together in the correct order. There are many millions of possible combinations or sequences of amino-acids; it is our DNA which contains the information about how to make proteins.

Choose lower fat versions whenever you can. Some meat products, e.g. beefburgers and sausages, can be high in fat. Trim visible fat off meat where possible. The Government recommends that we eat two portions of fish each week, one of which should be an oily fish (e.g. salmon, mackerel, trout, sardines or fresh tuna).

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The truth about loosing weight and diet

The topic entitled “the truth about loosing weight and diet” is a very interesting topic and speaks mainly about how to keep oneself fit and fine. Everybody wants to look healthy and beautiful and much younger than what they are. There are many commercial advertisements shown on the television on how to lose weight. These advertisements basically try to focus on some equipment and convince the customers to buy them. They actually try to portray that their products are the best and by using it they can reduce weight in just days. But actually they want to sell the product. These gym equipments do not help in any great way. The actual way to loose weight is to follow some free hand exercises and to have a diet which does not contain fat in any way. There should be a proper balanced diet which contains protein, fat, vitamins, and low calories.

Nowadays most of the people are very much health conscious and wants their body to be fit and fine. There are many online exercises available which could be followed or even some CD packs available which contains some of the latest techniques on how to lose weight. Increasing of weight and having an improper diet can also lead to many harmful dieases.This is the reason why most of the people have become so much health conscious and why so many fitness programmes are coming up. But buying any gym related equipment which is shown in the television or any miracle diet is not what it is shown to be. People do not get any result out of it. The only thing they lose is money.


There are also some sites available where you can find some of the updated techniques on how to reduce weight and here one will not even lose any money. Losing weight has many advantages. First of all you are going to look good. You will be free from all kinds of diseases. So everybody is trying to reduce their weight than what they are.


Nowadays junk foods have become a favorite with young people and they are consuming it in a big way. But these junk foods are very bad for health and increases fat very quickly. So people should take care about their diet as increasing of weight may lead to serious health problems. One should eat a lot of fruits, vegetables and milk and all other food which is free from fat or contains very low fat.

This article is mainly trying to inspire the today’s generation to be conscious about their health. By reading this article you will definitely understand the truth about losing weight. In order to get something you definitely have to lose something. So to look slim you have to sacrifice some tasty food and follow some free hand exercises or do walking or jogging everyday in the morning. This is only the truth of losing weight and staying fit. People who have followed this have gained in the long run.

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