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Spices & Low-Fat Dieting

Many people think low fat diets are plain and tasteless. By adding spices to foods, you can bring some of the flavor back. Eating a low fat diet helps aid weight loss and heart health.

  1. Low Fat Diet

    • Low fat diets benefit people trying to lose weight, lower cholesterol, or lower heart risk. Low fat diets help aid weight loss because fatty foods contain more calories than low fat alternatives. Fatty diets lead to high cholesterol and plaque build up in the heart. Eating a low fat diet decreases these risks.

    Spices

    • Removing fat from a diet often leads foods with little flavor, which is why so many people enjoy eating foods high in fat. Low fat diets call for the uses of spices to add flavor back into foods. Spices offer many different flavors. The options are endless.

    Advice

    • The American Heart Association suggest no more than 20 to 35 percent of daily calories should come from fat. Furthermore, only 7 percent saturated fats and less than 1 percent trans fats should come from your daily calories.

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