Stop The Junk Food

Regardless of whether it is tacos, burgers, or fried chicken; we love it just the same. Fast food has become a way of life for many people. They eat it three times a day. They’d rather have a Big Mac than a steak. But eating at a fast food chain doesn’t have to be bad for your health.

I’m not going to try and tell you that fast food fare is the healthiest food on the planet, but it can be pretty healthy if you make the right food choices.

If you order a burger, get it without the mayo and cheese. By doing this, you can reduce the amount of fat in your meal. If you feel that the sandwich is too dry without mayo, use mustard or ketchup instead. 

The processed cheese that many fast food franchises use is loaded with oil and other junk. You might think that cheese is made from milk, but not all of it is. Some of it is made from cooking oil and is less healthy than the milk based kind.

Avoid anything with bacon on it. You can save a substantial number of calories this way.  

It is also a good idea to stay away from items that are deep fried. This includes french fries, fried fish, and fried chicken. The oil they use for frying is not the healthiest and can add a ton of fat and worthless calories to your meal.

Most fast food franchises offer salads today. Consider substituting a side salad for the french fries. French fries are okay if you eat them on an occasional basis, but if you make a habit of eating them regularly, you should consider the salad substitute.

Subway promotes their food as being healthier than the typical fast food fare. And if you look at their menu, you can find some healthy alternatives. The fat content and calories for each item is listed in their menu. This is nice if you are watching what you eat.

If you are looking for a sensible and healthy diet plan, we recommend the South Beach diet. It is endorsed by the American Heart Association as a sensible, healthy diet plan.

As with anything involving your health, you should consult with a physician before beginning any type of weight loss regimen.

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There is absolutely no doubt in my mind. Without question, the best dog food is one which is based on a wild dog’s diet. Dogs have evolved on this. It’s raw meat. There are no cookers in nature.

People are reluctant to believe this for a variety of reasons. So lets look at some of them, and dispel your fears.

Firstly, you may be worried about the presence os parasites and worms in raw meat. It’s been drummed into you that meat needs to be cooked to kill them off.

I can assure you, that dogs digestion is robust. They have no trouble with worms and parasites in raw meat. They have evolved to deal with this. What they haven’t evolved to deal with is cooked food, high fat content, preservatives, pathogens in cooked food, poor quality filler and the low grade food which passes for dog food.

Secondly, you may be concerned about bones perforating an internal organ.

Dogs evolved by crunching up on raw bones. They have absolutely no problem with raw bones, as long as they are raw and they gnaw them. If you have more than one dog and they gobble the bone down to ensure the other doesn’t get it, they may suffer some discomfort while the bone passes through their digestive system, but it won’t do more than cause them discomfort. So ensure your dog gnaws the bone in peace.

The other problem is with cooked bones. These can perforate your dog’s internal organs. Cooked bones are a definite no-no when working out the ingredients for the best dog food.

Thirdly, you may think feeding your dog a raw food diet is expensive. After all, the connotation ‘best dog food’ looks expensive.

It depends on what you take into consideration. If you are feeding your dog the cheapest brand of dog food from the supermarket, and don’t have any ailments treated, then you may be right. If you do, I doubt you’re reading this. So lets suppose you feed your dog a medium priced commercial dog food and do use the services of a veterinarian or other health professional, for ailments your dog may suffer.

Raw dog food is nutrient dense. Commercial dog food is nutrient poor. So you need to feed much more commercial dog food to come anywhere near (and it never comes close) to providing the decent diet that raw meat does. Which means you need much less volume of raw food compared with commercial dog food.

Then, if you include the fees you spend on health care, there’s no comparison. Commercial pet food keeps veterinarians wealthy. They hardly see the healthy dogs fed on raw meat, nature’s best dog food.

Fourthly, you may think that the purchase and preparation of the best dog food there is, is too much like hard work. You think it may be too big a hassle.

I’ve taken the hassle out of it, by telling you how to do it without making the mistakes I did.

Fifthly, you may think you dog doesn’t like raw food.

Have you ever tried? With decent food, I mean? I can assure you, there is no dog alive who doesn’t recognise the raw food as the best dog food. If you’re overfeeding your dog, he may refuse it initially. And if you leave food out all day, that’s likely. Keep in mind too, many commercial dog food manufacturers add appetite stimulants to the food. This may cause a short term problem, while he adapts.

Lastly, you may be concerned that you don’t know enough to be able to get the nutritional needs of your dog correct. After all, that’s what’s pushed by veterinarians and commercial dog food manufacturers – you don’t know enough. Just because the packet tells you this brand is ‘recommended by top vets’ or that brand is ‘scientific’, doesn’t mean they are selling the best dog food. Quite the opposite, in fact.

I can tell you from experience, it’s not as difficult as they make out. You do need to know some important facts, but once you’ve opened your mind to allowing your own inner wisdom to emerge, and by following certain natural laws, you’ll have no problem working it out.

If everyone started feeding their dog raw meat, many, many veterinarians would go out of business.

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Fat free is not the same thing as calorie free. Not even close. Fat free foods tend to be loaded with all kinds of artificial things that make them calorie rich, which is what you want to avoid more than fat. Just because something is low in fat doesn’t mean that you can eat as much of it as you like.

Take, for example, granola cereal. 1/2 cup of regular granola cereal has roughly 250 calories, yet the same amount of low-fat granola cereal has about 210 calories. That isn’t a significant difference, yet many people think that the low fat version can be consumed with reckless abandon. All that stands to do is shoot your caloric intake through the roof, undermining your fitness goals. The comparison is even more evident with peanut butter, where two tablespoons of reduced-fat and regular peanut butter both contain roughly 190 calories.

Fat free foods also tend to be deficient in essential vitamins and minerals, as the refining processes that remove the fat also tend to remove those vital nutrients. Fat soluble vitamins such as vitamin E tend to be seriously lacking in fat free foods, which contributes to the large amount of fat-free dieters falling below their recommended daily intake of vitamin E.

While fat free foods can be better for you in terms of saturated fat content, it is important to remember that saturated fat and calories are not the only things that affect your nutrition. As with any fitness-oriented diet, you should make sure that your vitamin and mineral intake is adequate, easiest by simply taking a multivitamin that includes your required intake on the important nutrients.