- If you are concerned about heart disease, consult your physician to determine if you are at risk. If you are at risk, consider all contributing lifestyle factors: smoking, exercise, alcohol, dietary fat and body weight.
- Follow the recommendations provided in Eating Well with Canada’s Food Guide.
- Choose skim, 1% or 2% milk. Choose fat-free, 1% or 2% yogurt. These are low in fat, saturated fat and trans fat.
- Choose vegetables and fruit, grain products and lean meat and alternatives prepared with little or no added fat, sugar or salt.
- Have lower fat meat alternatives such as beans, lentils and tofu often.
- Use lower fat cooking methods. Instead of pan-frying or deep-frying, try baking, steaming, stir-frying, broiling, grilling or roasting (on a rack, so fat can drip away).
- Limit commercially fried foods and foods containing partially hydrogenated vegetable oil or shortening, such as stick margarines, non-dairy coffee creamers, pies, biscuits, muffins, cookies, pastries, and many snack foods. They may be high in saturated fat and trans fat.
- Find out how much fat you are getting in your diet. Download or order FoodTrack™—Check on Fat.
- To help understand how milk products contributes to total dietary fat, check the page, “Are milk products high in fat or calories?”
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