What is a Low Fat Diet

low-fat-dietA low fat diet – is an excellent opportunity to achieve durable weight loss and healthier. Fats and are the cause of our obesity – but not an abundance of starch or other carbohydrates. But at the same time, the minimum consumption of fats and is the foundation of healthy eating, but it is much more important than the issues of consumption of sugar, fat, salt or cholesterol. We can not say that these issues, little things, but the foundation of all foundations for us – eating less fat.

A low fat diet comprises about 25% fat, 20-25% protein and 50-55% carbohydrates. It is based on the fact that the energy value of fats comes to 9 kcal / g, so the easiest way to reduce the number of calories – is to reduce the proportion of fat in the diet.

With such a diet fat in the diet severely restricted animals saturated fat is almost completely excluded, and foods containing polyunsaturated fats, are used only in small quantities.

Type fat
The structure of all fats are fatty acids, all fats contain the same number of calories. And vegetable and animal fats are equally fattening. However, some fats are much worse than others.

Products that do not contain fat, not limited to – these include vegetables, fruit, cereal products, such as bread, rice and oatmeal. Although this diet is not very widely used, it provides a steady decrease in weight, while maintaining relatively high nutritional value. This diet is supported by physicians, because it contains little fat and high in grains, vegetables and fruits.

A low fat diet assumes a stable weight loss (2-3 kg per week) by reducing the number of calories consumed, so there is a deficiency of energy.

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