Successful Tips To Healthy Cooking

By Britni Lindsey

Due to the increasing heart disease cases coming up in the recent years, these days people are becoming very health conscious. One has to keep a lot of things in mind in order to lead a healthy life style.

Healthy cooking habit can be developed if you practice it on a daily basis. Now let me tell you some ways through which you can cook your food in a very healthy way.

1. Use as little salt as you can in your food. You can still maintain the taste of the recipe by adding lemon juice, herbs, flavored vinegar or different spices.

2. Use less of all fats like butter and oil. While cooking, avoid saturated fats; instead use unsaturated fats like soya oil, olive oil, vegetable oil or peanut oil.

3. As far as you can, avoid frying your food items. Instead of frying you can bake, boil, steam, grill or roast the food.

4. Always avoid using too much of tomato, soya or other processed sauces because they have a high level of salt content.

5. Canned fruits and vegetables have a high sodium content, so if you want to cook a healthy dish, it is best to use fresh fruits and vegetables.

6. Replace your whole milk with fat free or skim milk if you are obese or fat, this would surely help you in loosing the fat that is stored in your body.

7. You should never cook your food more than it is necessary. Sometimes overcooking the food at high temperature can eventually destroy the nutrients present in it. Always steam or stir fry your vegetables.

8. Always go for natural food rather than preserved or processed food items. You can use herbs, tomatoes, vinegar, salads and onions as much as you can.

9. Fiber is very essential for your body, so you must try to increase the fiber content in the food that you cook.

10. Trim all the fat from the meat items before cooking. Remove the outer skin of the chicken and turkey. If the meat dishes have chilled while kept in the refrigerator, you should always spoon off the fat from them even if it has hardened.

Follow the above stated tips, if you really want to cook your food using all the healthy methods. - 30289

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