Basics Of Healthy Cooking
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We live in a fast paced world and this lifestyle affects our mental, emotional, spiritual and physical well being. Part of this hectic lifestyle is fast food and this type of nutrition is quickly taking its toll on our health. This alarming reality is made perfectly clear when we hear the disturbing statistics regarding the percentage of overweight children and the increase in diabetes in our youth.
The answer is to get back to healthy cooking. There are two basic components to healthy cooking; they include eating the right foods and having them prepared in a healthy way.
Eating the Right Foods
The first step to healthy cooking is by walking into our grocery stores. Starting in the fruit and vegetable departments is a good place to begin both literally and figuratively. Fruits and vegetables offer the natural carbohydrates and fiber needed towards a healthy cooking program. Additionally, a large selection of organically grown foods is being offered to the health conscious customer.
When moving on to the dairy section, the shopper will be offered alternative dairy products, such as soy milk, to help in the reduction of the fat intake in one’s diet. A strict regimen of only soy products or a combination of soy in the diet will be helpful.
Additionally, in almost every grocery store aisle, you will see consumers pausing to read the nutritional labels on the food products. This is an excellent discipline towards healthy cooking as the label will reveal the contents and nutritional value of that food product. Special note should be taken of the salt content, fiber content, whether the product is hydrogenated and the grams of fat. Healthy cooking is in knowing what you are eating.
Preparation
Healthy cooking is not only about what you eat, but about how the food is prepared. To eat fish is healthy, but to deep fry that fish in an animal fat is counterproductive. Additionally, chicken is a good source of protein and is lean in fat content. However, if the skin from the chicken is left on and consumed the benefits of eating this lean meat is negated.
A good rule of thumb, in healthy cooking, is to eat the food as naturally as possible. This includes the use of cooking oil. Oils that are beneficial to our health and for cooking are generally from non-animal products, such as sunflower oil, olive oil and canola oil.
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