Losing weight

In deciding on a meal plan, it is important to attempt to moderate your consumption of fats, refined carbohydrate and salt.

Some reduced carbohydrate diet tips:
* Use low carb chocolate for cookies and muffins. If you have gone to the trouble of converting your most popular chocolate chip cookie or chocolate muffins recipe using soy flour, you really don't want to mix in those high carbohydrate sugar-rich chocolate. Chop up a reduced carbohydrate chocolate bar into tiny pieces and use that in its place.

* Know what is in your food Watch out for the food label that boasts to be 'low carb' - check the real nutritional information on the reverse of the can or package. Some are only slightly decreased and in some instances still higher than a competitors normal brand. Also, beware of 'low sugar' and 'low fat' labels - 'low sugar' doesn't always mean 'low carb' - often the carbs are exactly the same.

The brassica family, Healthy super foods that also help with your Your diet
(examples: Kale, Watercress, Tatsoi and Rutabaga)
Altthough not always popular with children, these vegetables are full of vitamins (eg.folate and vitamin c), minerals (eg. potassium), fibre, chlorophyll, antioxidents and isothiocyanates.

In addition to their most other healthy effects, the nutrients in these are thought to reduce the risk of cancer.