Healthy Swaps To Lose Weight

Nutritionist Juliette Kellow’s shows how to make healthy swaps that will quickly add up to a big change for your waistline.

16:51 25 January 2016

 

If you’re still struggling to lose weight even after you’ve already cut your portions, stayed away from salty and sweet foods, and added more fruits and vegetables to your diet, you may benefit from Juliette Kellow’s healthy swaps ideas such as the following:

 

1.     Go for baby corn instead of sweetcorn.  Baby corns are much lower in carbs and natural sugars when compared to sweetcorn. The former also offers more vitamins and minerals. However, both offer the same amount of fibre that can fill you up.

 

2.     Go for cantaloupe melon instead of honeydew. One slice of cantaloupe only has 29 calories but provides more than half of our daily requirement of vitamin A. It has the same amount of similar nutrients and has twice as much fibre and vitamic C when compared to honeydew.

 

3.     Go for brown rice instead of easy-cook rice. When compared to easy-cook rice, brown rice contains less potassium, phosphorus, copper and zinc but more calcium, iron and B vitamins.

 

4.     Go for green pepper instead of yellow. Green peppers have 13 calorie less when compared to their yellow counterparts.

 

5.     Go for tomato juice instead of orange juice. Tomato juice has significantly lower calories when compared to orange juice. It also has lycopene, an antioxidant that can provide protection against certain cancers.