Kathleen Peterson

250 Healthy Low Fat Recipes Kathleen Peterson

If you are thinking about losing weight, you might want to consider a low-fat diet. It's a healthy approach that gives you all the nutritional components you need."I'm a big advocate of following a low-fat diet as an eating plan for life, rather than a diet that you go on and get off," says Elizabeth Ricanati, MD, medical director for Lifestyle 180 at the Wellness Institute, Cleveland Clinic Foundation. "If you want good health, you need to eat a healthy diet. You don't put tomato juice in a car and expect it to work."In addition to helping you lose weight by using calories on more filling foods, following a low-fat diet can help you ward off serious medical conditions, including heart disease, high cholesterol, and diabetes.