When food shopping for the week (or month), a lot of thought goes in to our selections – yet many of us give very little thought about how much of what we buy and prepare goes in the trash. For example, did you know we throw away approximately one third of the food we buy each week?
Here are some helpful tips to help reduce food waste.
Just because a product says fat free or low fat doesn’t necessarily mean it’s healthier or even lower in calories. Most low-fat or fat-free products add sugar or other unhealthy ingredients to make up for the lack of taste.
Your body needs healthy forms of fat to keep cell walls strong and regulate hormones such as testosterone which helps fuel your sex drive. Testosterone also influences other body tissues and bone mass. So eating a certain amount of fat is necessary. Here are a few reasons why fat-free isn’t always the best choice.