Cooking Tips & Helpful Hints
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- Choose lean meat, such as round steak and flank
steak, and trim off visible fat.
- Leave the chicken skin
on your plate or remove the skin prior to cooking, so you won't be tempted to eat
it.
- Broil, boil, poach, steam,
or roast foods rather than frying.
- Go easy on the mayonnaise, salad
dressing, butter, or margarine.
- Choose lowfat dairy
products.
- Treat yourself to an exotic
fresh fruit such as mangos, raspberries, papayas,
or kiwi fruit instead of a rich dessert.
- Take only one serving of
foods- watch
those seconds.
- Eat slowly - savor each bite - and
enjoy eating healthy while keeping your calorie
count lower.
Helpful Hints:
- When you go out to a party or restaurant try to
remember there will always be special occasions
and you don't need to overeat. Choose between
your immediate and long-term goals.
- Eating at a fast food restaurant - order a
regular hamburger with
mustard instead of the larger burger with
mayonnaise - order lowfat
milk instead of a shake - peel the skin off the
fried chicken and the coating
off the fried fish.
- Traveling - request a special lighter meal from
the airline - carry some fruit, cheese, crackers,
or nuts for nutritious on the road snacks.
- It's all right to be
less than perfect - don't feel guilty
for eating, just remember the equation, eat less
+ exercise more = weight loss.
- Reduce food's priority in
your life and increase
the priority for lower weight.
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The American Dietetic Association (ADA) is
a 66,500 member association that promotes the optimal
health, nutrition, and well-being of the public. The ADA
seeks to shape the food choices and impact the
nutritional status of the public in hospitals, colleges,
universities, schools, day care center, research,
business and industry. ADA sets and approves standards of
education and practice. Its National Center for Nutrition
and Dietetics maintains a consumer nutrition hotline
1-800-366-1655 and provides information and referrals to
registered dietitians throughout the country.
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