The average Kiwi eats too much fat!
High in meat and dairy fat – the meat and three veggies meal – has made us very vulnerable to heart and blood vessel disease.
Being overweight or obese increases your risk of heart attack.
It increases your risk of developing high blood cholesterol, high blood pressure and diabetes — each of which also increases your chance of having a heart attack – or worse The Risk of Death Rises with Increasing Weight.
If you are overweight, even a small weight loss – just 10 percent of your current weight, will help to lower your risk of developing many diseases and will often improve the overall quality of your life.
By any measure, the average Kiwi eats too much fat. Our traditional Kiwi diet which tends to be high in meat and dairy fat – the meat and three veggies meal – has made us very vulnerable to heart and blood vessel disease, not to mention a whole range of other diseases.
To make matters worse, it’s the wrong kind of fat; since so much of our food comes from animal products, much of the fat we eat is saturated fat.
It has been estimated that each day, the average person consumes one-third of a cup of pure fat. Each time we stop in for a quick cheeseburger with fries and a shake, we’ll consume 75 grams of fat.
It wasn’t always that way. In 1900 only 30 percent of the calories in our diet came from fat. By the 1960s, however, our fat intake was up to 44 percent. Since then, of course, we’ve become a cholesterol-conscious society, and we have started to improve. At present, its been estimated that 37 percent of our daily calories from fat. It’s progress, to be sure, but it’s not good enough, particularly since half our daily fat is the saturated variety.
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… the combination of Vedic Meditation, for twenty minutes twice a day, with a good diet – especially a low fat, low salt diet – and physical exercise, should see a dramatic change in your health.
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