Answers to your food choices - Tips for Health
Here are answers to food choices that often leave you flummoxed
Potato salad vs cole slaw
It's hard to decide between these two tasty and common side dishes. Both are mixed with mayonnaise, but which one is more detrimental to the waist size?
Answer: Potato salad
With more calories, fat and sodium, potato salad loses to coleslaw. The salad is mostly cabbage — a cruciferous veggie that has the fewest caloriesand least fat of any vegetable.
Fried chicken vs steak
If you have a choice between fresh steak or crispy fried chicken, what must you avoid?
Answer: Fried chicken
Nutritionists say fried chicken breast, which has 728 calories and 37 grams of fat. Steak is considered to be a rich source of protein and iron. Just learn to watch your portion size.
Barbecue sauce vs ketchup
Both are yummy and taste amazing ly well with everything that is freshly out of the grill.
Answer: Barbeque sauce
Barbecue sauce narrowly loses out to ketchup. As the latter has fewer calories and a little less salt. Besides, ketchup has more lycopene than barbecue sauce, which is known to be a cancer fighter.
Sweet tea vs soda
While a cold fizzy soda goes well with a meal, sweet tea is summertime favourite.
Answer: Soda
While many may think sweet-tea, soda is loaded with phosphorus, which might affect bone strength. However, in order to be a real winner, the tea has to be homemade. At least with green and black tea, you're getting antioxidants, which help fight the free radicals that can damage your cells.
Peanuts vs chips
Both salty snacks are great to nibble on with drinks or while waiting for dinner to be served.
Answer: Potato chips
Chips have less fat and fewer calories, so how do they lose out to peanuts? Peanuts have fibre, protein, some healthy fat and they're more filling, which means you'll probably eat fewer peanuts. With potato chips, you could eat a million of them and not really feel satisfied. Besides, they are loaded with saturated fats.
Brownie vs chocolate chip
Some would argue that dessert is the best part of any meal. When the choice is between a richbrownie square or a utterly-butterly cookie sprinkled with chocolate chips, you will choose what?
Answer: Brownie
With desserts, size matters Whenever you have sweets, nutritionists advice that you must follow the two-inch rules. For a brownie, that's a little square. If you have one of those mondo cookies, they are 350 calories and above. A small cookie, though, can weigh in at less than 100 calories. If the brownie and cookie are the same size, opt for the cookie — it'll be about half the calories (47 vs. 112).
Hot dog vs Hamburger
A hamburger is double the size of a hot dog, but the latter has a lot of sodium. Which is worse for the system?
Answer: Hot Dog
Hot dogs are loaded with salt. And salt raises blood pressure, which contributes to heart disease. Watch the size of the burger, though — keep it to no more than four bites (the size of a deck of cards.)
Potato salad vs cole slaw
It's hard to decide between these two tasty and common side dishes. Both are mixed with mayonnaise, but which one is more detrimental to the waist size?
Answer: Potato salad
With more calories, fat and sodium, potato salad loses to coleslaw. The salad is mostly cabbage — a cruciferous veggie that has the fewest caloriesand least fat of any vegetable.
Fried chicken vs steak
If you have a choice between fresh steak or crispy fried chicken, what must you avoid?
Answer: Fried chicken
Nutritionists say fried chicken breast, which has 728 calories and 37 grams of fat. Steak is considered to be a rich source of protein and iron. Just learn to watch your portion size.
Barbecue sauce vs ketchup
Both are yummy and taste amazing ly well with everything that is freshly out of the grill.
Answer: Barbeque sauce
Barbecue sauce narrowly loses out to ketchup. As the latter has fewer calories and a little less salt. Besides, ketchup has more lycopene than barbecue sauce, which is known to be a cancer fighter.
Sweet tea vs soda
While a cold fizzy soda goes well with a meal, sweet tea is summertime favourite.
Answer: Soda
While many may think sweet-tea, soda is loaded with phosphorus, which might affect bone strength. However, in order to be a real winner, the tea has to be homemade. At least with green and black tea, you're getting antioxidants, which help fight the free radicals that can damage your cells.
Peanuts vs chips
Both salty snacks are great to nibble on with drinks or while waiting for dinner to be served.
Answer: Potato chips
Chips have less fat and fewer calories, so how do they lose out to peanuts? Peanuts have fibre, protein, some healthy fat and they're more filling, which means you'll probably eat fewer peanuts. With potato chips, you could eat a million of them and not really feel satisfied. Besides, they are loaded with saturated fats.
Brownie vs chocolate chip
Some would argue that dessert is the best part of any meal. When the choice is between a richbrownie square or a utterly-butterly cookie sprinkled with chocolate chips, you will choose what?
Answer: Brownie
With desserts, size matters Whenever you have sweets, nutritionists advice that you must follow the two-inch rules. For a brownie, that's a little square. If you have one of those mondo cookies, they are 350 calories and above. A small cookie, though, can weigh in at less than 100 calories. If the brownie and cookie are the same size, opt for the cookie — it'll be about half the calories (47 vs. 112).
Hot dog vs Hamburger
A hamburger is double the size of a hot dog, but the latter has a lot of sodium. Which is worse for the system?
Answer: Hot Dog
Hot dogs are loaded with salt. And salt raises blood pressure, which contributes to heart disease. Watch the size of the burger, though — keep it to no more than four bites (the size of a deck of cards.)
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