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Weight Loss or Fat Loss: Do you know the difference?

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Dt. Punamkumar B. Dave DaveDietitian/Nutritionist • 13 Years Exp.Certified Food & Nutritionist
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"Disease prevention requires proper nutrition. Do you ask yourself - I want to lose weight or I want to lose fat? Are you aware that both are not same? Weight loss includes muscle loss as well. Or worse, weight loss can be loss of health! But fat loss is just fat loss. So how can you avoid loss of health, vigour and muscle while you really reduce fat/weight?

Follow these simple ways to lose only what you should:

-Avoid all fried, baked and high fat items like cakes, biscuits, ice creams. These food items are the number one culprits for fat accumulation.

-Avoid consuming items having simple sugars like chocolate, candy or other sweet items. Ultimately these simple sugars get converted into body fat.

-Avoid junk food. One burger gives you as many calories as a meal, but not as much nutrition or the feeling of satiety. As a result you end up eating more burgers or pizzas adding empty calories and increasing your body fat.

-Increase proportion of protein in diet but be careful to simultaneously decrease animal fat, trans-fat and total fat. This is best achieved by mixing soybean in food preparations.


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