Actively Ageing
What are the best things I can do TODAY to help my heart?
Alison Ford - Monday, January 04, 2010
- Quit smoking
- Limit your caffeine and alcohol intake
- Trim the saturated fat from your Diet!
Many of us eat too much fat. We should get no more than 35% of our daily caloric value from fat which work s out to be a maximum of 70 gm a day for women and 95 grams a day for men.- Remove the skin from your chicken or turkey before eating it.
- Trim all visible fat from your meat before cooking it.
- Choose low-fat options when eating out.
- Don’t choose take-away food as there is an abundance of hidden fat in most.
- Try to avoid all frying of foods.
- Cut back on processed foods.
- Prepare your meals from scratch using fresh produce
- Maintain the required fat levels by choosing nuts and seeds .
- Add some activity into your Life!
Follow the guidelines in the Actively Ageing Workbook.
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Author - Alison Ford
Alison Ford has released these designer exercises in full colour demonstrations in the workbook 'Actively Ageing' and on the accompanying ‘Actively Ageing DVD’
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