Low Salt & Low-Fat Cooking
Cooking with low salt and oils low in fat helps reduce your risk of stroke and heart disease. It also improves cholesterol. You don't need to be a spa chef to cook healthy. Does this Spark an idea?
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Cooking OIl and Salad Dressing
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Cook with olive oil or canola oil instead of butter or coconut oil, which are high in saturated fats. Prepare salads with oil and vinegar or a light vinaigrette instead of creamy high fat dressings. Substitute low fat mayonnaise for regular. Saturated fats raise your LDL cholesterol, also known as "bad" cholesterol.
Salt
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Make your own soups from a hearty vegetable stock, instead of heating canned soup, which is very high in sodium. Use low sodium salt in recipes requiring salt.
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Ingredients
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Use fresh herbs like basil, oregano, and mint. Season with strong flavors such as garlic, cinnamon and nutmeg. Inexperienced cooks often use too much butter, cream and salt in place of healthy ingredients .Plan a vegetarian meal at least twice a week. Consider vegetable or soy substitutes in place of meat which is high in saturated fat.
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