Can A Low Carb Diet Help You Avoid Trans Fats?

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diet, chances are that you don’t eat very many processed or fried foods so you won’t be consuming much food with trans fats. If you are sticking to mostly low fat meats and vegetables you’re probably in pretty good shape as far as trans fats ingestion goes. Margarine is high in trans fats, but there are several brands out there that have no trans fats so if you are eating a lot of margarine, you may want to look intorepparttar brand you are buying. Mos ofrepparttar 114796 foods high in trans fatty acids like chips, donuts, muffins, cakes, candy, soups, breads, margarine, cheese spreads, and cookies are no-no’s on a low carb eating plan so cutting them out of your diet hasrepparttar 114797 added health benefit of reducing your intake of these fats.

How do you know if a food has them? Well,repparttar 114798 food industry doesn’t make it easy, they rarely put their content onrepparttar 114799 labels so you will need to figure it out by readingrepparttar 114800 ingredients. When buying packaged foods beware ofrepparttar 114801 word “hydrogenated” or “partially hydrogenated” inrepparttar 114802 list of ingredients. These foods will contain trans fatty acids. If you are leading a low carb lifestyle you probably won’t be buying these foods anyway so not to worry!



Lee Dobbins is webmaster of http://www.lowcarb-resource.com where you can find more information on low carb living.


How To Get The Most Health Benefits From Garlic

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If you are trying to serve yourself a garlic herbal remedy by adding garlic to your foods then make sure you crush it a bit ahead of time and don't add untilrepparttar final 5 minutes of cooking. This will giverepparttar 114795 allicin enough time to develop and will insure you don't cook allrepparttar 114796 garlic health out of it. My favorite way to enjoyrepparttar 114797 health benefits of this powerful herb is to make a garlic bread as described below.

1) Crush 3 or 4 cloves of garlic 2) Cut up some Italian bread 3) Poprepparttar 114798 cut up bread inrepparttar 114799 oven or toaster 4) Spread butter onrepparttar 114800 toasted bread along with a generous amount ofrepparttar 114801 crushed garlic 5) Enjoy!

Garlic can have an affect on blood clotting, so don't start eating more of it unless you discuss it with your physician first especially if you are on blood thinning medication or due to have surgery inrepparttar 114802 near future.



Lee Dobbins is a contributing writer for www.a2z-vitamin-and-herbs.com where you can find more information on healing herbs and vitamins and the health benefits of garlic.


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