Patient was educated on foods to avoid on a healthy meal as follows:
- Prepare your meat on removing extra fat, before you cook it. Cutting away all the visible fat from the meat and/or roasting the meat on rack, can help with removing all the extra fat and calories from the meat.
- For meat, choosing fish, chicken, and turkey, over beef and pork, twice a week, can help cutting down on extra calories associated with beef and pork.
- While eating chicken and turkey, choose to have meat that is skinless as skin has more fat and is associated with more calories.
- Also, with white meat, choose to have more lean cuts of breast meat over thigh and leg pieces. Thigh and leg pieces comparatively have higher fat content and so, more calories.
- Choose to have your beef steak from sirloin or a tenderloin versus a ribeye, porterhouse, or a T-bone, as they have lesser amount of saturated fat and are comparatively healthier.
- Choose to have your pork steak from tenderloin or a top loin versus a center loin or a rib chop, as they have lesser amount of saturated fat and are comparatively healthier.
- Choose soups made of lean meat and fresh vegetables. Try using low fat alternatives versus heavy cream, while making soups. Prepare all your soups a day ahead before consumption. Refrigerating them overnight and removing any extra fat that floats to the top the following morning, can help remove any extra calories from the soups.
