The term very term low fat low cholesterol diet brings to many people images and the taste of a bland diet that is clean-shaven of all delicacies and pleasures of food. Yet the truth of the matter is that you can have an enjoyable low fat low cholesterol diet – a diet with which you get to save yourself from the harmful effects a high cholesterol diet, without (at the same time) depriving yourself of the pleasures of eating.
The key to such an enjoyable low fat low cholesterol diet lies in intelligent food substitution. As it turns out, for every unhealthy food you have to give up as a part of your low fat cholesterol diet, there is another close substitute which is just as enjoyable – or perhaps even more enjoyable than the unhealthy food you would have given up.
One thing which many people have a problem giving up – and whose giving up is often a prerequisite to a successful low fat low cholesterol diet is red meat, through stuff like beef, hamburgers, hot dogs and sausages. The truth of the matter is however that a low fat low cholesterol diet does not require that you give up on all meat and turn into a vegetarian. The only requirement is for you to give up on the fatty red meats – and you can keep with the white meats, like fish and poultry – which many people come to find more enjoyable than even the red meats they had to give up. Foods like poultry, especially, can be particularly enjoyable, especially with the aid of a few creative recipes.
High fat diary products are another food group you will be required to avoid to make your low fat low cholesterol diet a success. This doesn’t however mean that you have to give up on all diary foods as part of your low fat cholesterol diet. On the contrary, as long as you opt for low fat varieties of diary products, then you won’t have any problem, and you can continue enjoying your diary products, they key being to opt for low fat varieties. Many people imagine that going for low fat diary product constitutes a major deprivation, but in actual fact, the difference it terms of enjoyment between low fat and high fat diary products is negligible as they taste basically the same. And as with fish and poultry products, with a use of a few imaginative recipes, you can make these low fat varieties of diary products truly enjoyable.
Eggs – and particularly egg yolk – is yet another food you are required to practice moderation on if your low fat low cholesterol diet is to be a success. The encouraging thing here though is that doctors tend to urge moderation, rather than abstinence with regard to egg yolk. And in any case, you can beat the egg, incorporate the egg white into some sort of enjoyable dish and dispose off the egg yolk. This way you get to enjoy an egg-based dish without exposing yourself to the harmful effects of the high cholesterol you stand to get from through the egg yolk.