Eating healthy – Advice on good nutrition
By choosing the right foods, it is possible to reduce your overweight and reach a healthy body weight. But it is even more important that you maintain this weight permanently. To achieve this goal, hunger, deprivation and continuous self-control are not best friends.
With the right knowledge about Healthy Eating and the willingness to implement lasting changes in your eating habits, you are on the right way to achieve your personal ideal weight without going on a diet. This will help you to maintain your desired weight without the need for constant dieting and without the yo-yo effect.
Overweight is caused by a positive energy balance. This means if you consume more calories than you burn, sooner or later you are going to gain weight. Many times this is because you are eating the wrong foods. Wrong foods are especially fast food and convenience foods. Industrial processed foods are very often made with poor-quality ingredients and are also high in calories.
Overweight can also be caused by baked goods, sweets and soft drinks.
Even a small imbalance between calorie intake and calorie consumption will cause a noticeable change of your body over time. For example, if you eat a bar of chocolate every day that contains more energy than you need in calories, you could gain up to 8 pounds in a year. However, if your calorie intake is less than your calorie requirement, you will lose weight just as safely.
Food Comparison
Food Category | Recommended Foods | Bad Foods |
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Bread / Cereals |
Whole grain bread Rye bread Rye bun Black bread Spelled bread Oatmeal Quinoa & Amaranth |
Wheat bread Wheat bread roll White bread Toast Milk bun Rusk |
Cheese | all Types of cheese, up to 30% F.D.M. | all Types of chese from 40% F.D.M. |
Sausages |
Low-fat sausage, e.g. Cassler Poultry sausage Cooked ham without Fat Roast beef |
High-fat sausage, e.g. Liver sausage Cervelat sausage Mortadella Salami |
Milk & Dairy Products |
Low-fat milk, 1.5% fat Condensed milk, 4% fat Lowfat quark Natural yoghurt, 1.5% fat Buttermilk Soured milk Kefir Whey Sour Milk |
Whole milk, 3.5% fat Coffee cream Condensed milk, 7.5% fat Quark, 40% fat Natural yoghurt, 3.5 fat Whipped cream Creme fraiche |
Meat |
Lean meat from Calf, Beef or Pig |
Fatty meat of any kind e.g. Bacon, Pork belly |
Venison meat | Low-fat parts | |
Poultry |
Skinless chicken Skinless turkey |
Goose Duck |
Fish |
Lean fish (< 2% fat) e.g. Pike Cod Haddock Plaice Saithe Zander |
Fatty fish (> 2% fat) e.g. Trout Eel Salmon Herring Mackerel Sardines |
Potatoes |
Boiled potatoes Peel potatoes Mashed potatoes Potato dumplings |
French fries Fried potatoes Roast potatoes Potato chips |
Vegetables |
all types of fresh vegetables all types of frozen vegetables Steamed vegetables or raw vegetables |
Canned vegetables |
Herbs & spices |
Iodized salt, sparingly used Fresh herbs & spices Frozen herbs & spices |
Ready-to-use sauces |
Fat & oil |
Margarine semi-fat Margarine Butter Olive oil Sunflower oil Maize germ oil Safflower oil |
Mayonnaise Lard Bacon Coconut oil |
Fruits | fresh fruit of any kind | Canned fruits |
Baked goods |
all low-fat species e.g. lean yeast dough Curd-oil dough Wholemeal cake Wholemeal cookies |
Salty cookies Chips Tacos Fat yeast dough Puff pastry Shortcrust pastry Sponge cake base Sponge cake Cakes Baked goods made from wheat flour |
Sweets |
Jam with sweetener Steamed compote with sweetener Sweetener |
Jam with sugar Compote with sugar Sugar Honey Syrup Sweets Chocolate Nougat Marzipan Ice cream |
Drinks |
Mineral water Tea with sweetener Coffee with sweetener Natural cloudy fruit juices Natural cloudy vegetable juices Schorle |
Alcohol Fruit juices with sugar Fruit nectars with sugar Vegetable juices with sugar Lemonade Effervescent Coke |