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The Chef’s Corner By Chef  Bill  Mitchell

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 I wanted to revisit a topic that was brought to my attention from one of my readers, that is Healthy Cooking.
It's important to remember it's not so much of what you eat, as is how much you eat of it, if your watching your weight or your heart. It all has to do with your body metabolism. Everything we put in our bodies, by way of our mouth, has a lifetime effect on your basic heath or lack of. Look at your body as if it was an empty glass and you were filling it up as the day goes on. At some point the glass will over fill and spill over if you didn't stop. What you filled it with isn't as important as that you only needed enough to fill the glass and not spill over. That's basically what Calories are.

Calories are just a measurement of how much Carbohydrates, Proteins, and Fat we consume. For example, a male with the age over 51, average or slightly over weight that doesn't do any exercise should burn 2,000 calories a day to maintain the same weight. By taking in fewer calories a day, he'll probably loose a couple of lbs a week. If he lowered the calories and did some light exercise he'll probably loose about 5 lbs a week.

The problem is that everyone doesn't want to sit there in the kitchen and read the back of the labels all day long and figure out how much they can eat, am I right? Most of us will just say forget this, it's too much trouble and then 10 years goes by and you're feeling like a bag of potatoes. All you have to do is look up the calorie intake of basic food groups that you like to eat than you'll know what portion size to have in order to either maintain your weight or loose weight.

 How do I know how many calories I need to consume and need to burn a day to keep my weight equal? Lots of ways, talk to your Doctor, get on line and look up "Calorie Intake" or here is a basic guideline;

Females non-active active 19-30 yrs 2,000 2,400 Calories 31-50 yrs 1,800 2,200 51+ 1,600 2,200

Males 19-30 yrs 2,400 3,000 Calories 31-50 yrs 2,200 3,000 51+ 2,000 2,800

Remember, this is only a basic guideline of how many Calories you need a day. Here's an example of a diet plan for one day with how many calories it has for the day;
Breakfast: 1 cup wheat cereal,

Lunch: Salad- Ice berg or whatever, 1 cup skim milk,1 tablespoon low-fat Italian dressing, 1 cup sliced strawberries or cucumber slices and tomato slices along with 1 ounce reduced-fat, reduced sodium Swiss cheese.

Snack: ½ cup mixed unsalted nuts

Dinner: Fish, 1 cup green tea,  ½ cup cooked quick brown rice steamed vegetables

Another Snack: 1 pre packaged fat-free vanilla pudding and 1 small banana

Ok, now that you all said, what?
I'd starve, this simple diet plan only has 1343 Calories. Sounds like you were watching how much you were putting into your glass doesn't it? If you would like some more information or just have a question, drop me a line and I'd be happy to talk to you.

Remember if you would like the Restaurant to come to your home with your very own private Chef, I put on "Private Dinner Parties" great for any occasion, birthday, celebration, and anniversary. Thank you, and remember your are what you eat. Chef Bill !
chefbillmitchell@yahoo.com  or 852-2728

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Thanx, Chef Bill!
 

Wednesday August 1, 2007
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