Saturated Fat

Read Nutritional Labels

Make it a habit to read the nutritional labels when you purchase food. Look carefully to see how much saturated fat is contained in each product. Your goal is to reduce the amount of saturated fat that you consume. Try to find more products that have a higher percentage of healthy fats. The fats that are the best for you are monounsaturated and polyunsaturated fats

Be on the lookout for trans fats, they are not currently labeled. There is a simple way to see if a product has a lot of trans fats. If you see partially hydrogenated oils or hydrogenated oils listed before monounsaturated or polyunsaturated oils, then the product contains a lot of trans fat. Remember, the more you know about the foods that you put in your body, the better.

Picking up a product at a grocery store is your trigger to turn it over and inspect the label. Buy a red magic marker and put an X on all the food products in your house that are high in fat. This will remind you to limit your portions of these products.

Remember... fat has the most amount of calories per gram. So it makes sense to start reducing your fat consumption first, and if you're exercising or moving more then that's a double whammy in your favor. You will see faster results if you do this.

To your awesome health!

Joyce Hearn
www.joycehearn.com