2. Place mango flesh in a saucepan. Add white wine and chutney. Bring to boil, reduce heat and simmer until sauce has reduced by half, about 15 minutes.

3. Add chopped spring onions. Return to boil, reduce heat and simmer for a further two to three minutes.

4. Dust veal schnitzels with plain flour. While sauce is simmering, brush or spray a large frying pan with oil and heat over medium-high heat.

5. Fry schnitzels, turning occasionally, for approximately 10 minutes until browned on both sides.

6. Remove cooked schnitzels from pan. Add 2 tablespoons of water to pan, as well as sauce. Heat, stirring constantly, for about three minutes.

7. Arrange schnitzels on individual dinner plates. Spoon sauce over schnitzels and garnish with whole spring onions.

4. Eat lean protein with every meal. Protein provides a powerful signal to brain providing a longer sense of fullness. The right source of protein is essential to controlling your hunger with fewer calories and necessary to maintain your lean muscle mass. Choices of protein should be flavored soy shakes with fruit; white meat of chicken and turkey, seafood such as shrimps, prawns scallops and lobster and ocean fish or vegetarians may prefer soy based meat substitutes.

5. Rev up your metabolism with activity. If you want to enjoy a lifetime of well being, exercise is a key ingredient. Thirty minutes activity each day that takes as much effort as a brisk walk is recommended for adults. Children should be active for an hour each day.

6. Get support to ensure you develop a healthful eating plan and reach your goal weight. A study, “Effects of Internet Behavioral Counseling on Weight Loss in Adults at Risk of Type 2 Diabetes” shows that participants who had support of weight loss coaching lost more weight than those who didn’t. The study concluded that support of a weight loss coach can significantly improve weight loss results.

Being overweight or obese has been identified next to smoking, as most preventable major risk to developing cancer. Even small weight losses have been shown to have beneficial health effects. So it’s never to late to start and you can never be too young or too old to be concerned about your health and do something about achieving a more healthy weight.

(c) Copyright by Kim Beardsmore