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jeudi 25 juillet 2013

How To Plan A Workable Diet Program Using Packaged Food Nutrition Data

By Marion Peters


Today it seems like everywhere you turn to on the web and on popular media, you are likely to run into someone selling you a diet program. While some of the diets being promoted may have worked for others, there is no guarantee they will be similarly good for you. As such, use the guidelines below to customize your own plan using the handy nutrition data on food packaging.

There is a misplaced though pretty common sentiment that all you need to take care of in a diet are the amount of calories. While it is true that most diets are structured to help weight watchers limit the calorific content of their food, this is just part of the program. Just as important is the need to look after the nutrients, minerals and vitamins in every dish served.

All you need to get started is a diet program with recommended nutritional intake daily. You can then make a simple journal setting out how much to take daily with respect to calories and nutritional elements. Your journal should be a simple table with at least five columns or you can use a spreadsheet software program.

For each day, list the nutritional elements such as vitamins, carbohydrates and minerals you need to watch in the leftmost column of your journal. Remember to leave about four or five blank lines under each element of nutrition you are keeping watch over. Label the second column, "daily intake" and label the other columns to correspond with the meals you take daily though the rightmost column should be blank to add up the totals.

For each day, you will need to plan a set of nutritional elements as set out in your diet guide. Indicate the first element such as carbohydrates on the first column and leave four or five rows blank before indicating the next nutrient. Transfer the daily recommended intake against each nutrient in the second column of the journal. The other columns will be used to indicate amount set for each meal.

As you allocate the nutritional proportions to take in each meal, take care to note the format of the nutritional information on the packaging. While some food processors indicate the amount of nutrients included in a serving, others indicate this per a certain weight such as 100 grams. Remember too that a single food item will have more than one nutritional element in varying proportions.

You can plan a healthy diet with little effort. Begin by making a tabulated journal to keep track of how much of particular nutrients you take on a typical day. The nutrition data on packaged food items will help you make the plan even easier to set in motion.




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