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When people start a diet they usually set a goal weight for themselves. There are no set rules what this goal should be, but instead a goal is always individual and flexible. Lot of things like the dieters age, health and starting weight affect the target weight. But seen from a medical point of view the minimun target should be to reach a BMI of 30, because a BMI higher than 30 means a big increase in the risk of many health problems.

So it´s not always just the kilos you should be concentrating on. Besides BMI another good way to measure your progress is to take your body measurements. Healthwise it is actually more useful to measure your waistline than weight yourself. The right place for th is measurement

is 2 centimetres above the belly button. According to the World Health Organization guidelines  a women´s waistline shouldn´t be over 79 cm and a man´ s more than 93 cm.

A great way to reach your target when it comes to weight loss is the ValueSlim plan, an easy and healthy way to slim down.

The cornerstones of a healthy diet are variety and moderation. When you follow these simple principles you will get enough energy and nutrients needed by the body.

Choosing what you eat carefully is especially important for people who need lower amounts of energy like the elderly, dieters and women in general. When the amount of food consumed is smaller it´s really important to make sure you get all the necessary nutrients and vitamins from food.

The dietary model shows you the variety of a healthy diet. You should include something from every sector of the model to your daily diet.

The six sectors are:
-vegetables, fruits and berries
-grain products
-meat, fish and eggs
-potatoes
-fats
By eating something from all the sectors everyday you can make sure your diet is healthy and also has variety.

The ValueSlim plan makes maintaining a healthy and balanced diet easy.

Food is not only vital for people but it´s also a great source of pleasure and enjoyment.

In order to get all the nutrients we need from food it is important that our diet is varied. Three of the most important  nutritive substances for people are carbohydrates, fats and proteins.

A healthy diet should include all of these three. Over half of the energy we consume should come from carbs, a little less then a third from fats and about 15 per cent from proteins.

That can seem like some difficult math that is hard to implement in your daily life. Fortunately there is an easy way of controling your portions: the platemodel. The platemodel shows from which components a good meal comprises of and the model is very easy to use in everyday life:

Half of the plate on a meal should be filled with fresh or boiled vegetables, a quarter of the plate with potato, pasta or rice and another quarter with meat or fish.

Then add to this 1-2 slices of bread greased with margarine.

The Value Slim meals give you all the important nutrions a body needs and at the same time makes sure your portion sizes are suitable.

Choosing a healthy diet has other benefits then just slimming down, an unhealthy diet can actually cause many health hazards and unhealthy foods cause people numerous harmful diseases. An unhealthy diet and its consequences sneak up on people as the damages caused by unhealthy foods develop slowly over years and decades.

But everyone can make a difference to their own diets and make a decision to make the right choices and Value Slim from now on. If you replace bad fats with good fats you lower your risk of cardiovascular diseases. Eating more vegetables shields you from cancer and many other diseases and using less salt lowers your cholesterol levels.

Drinking one drink of alcohol has been shown to actually have some health benefits but excessive use of alcohol is always harmful to your health.

Another important thing is to make sure you get all the necessary protective nutrients from the food you eat. Inadequate intake of protective nutrients can  be harmful for your health.

For example a vitamin D insufficiency can lead to thinning of the bones.

Fats are a theme that always awekens a lot of discussion and debate. Are fats just bad for you? Should you eat fats and if yes then which kind of

fats are good and which are bad? The first question is easy to answer: everybody needs fats so fats shouldn´t be compeletely avoided.

The human body actually needs fats for a number of vital functions. For example fats help our body to absorb nutrients and thay also help nerve transmission. So fats have an important role to play in our bodies and therefore shouldn´t be seen as the devil out to ruin our bodies.

But on the other hand fats can do a lot of harm in the human body if eaten in excess. When a person´s diet includes excess amounts of fats, there are multipal health risks involved. First of all a faddy diet leads to weight gain and it also contributes to heart disease and some types of cancer. Things we all would like to avoid.

The key when it comes to fats  is to remember that there are many different kinds of fats. Fats that are good for you when eaten in moderate amounts and your body and fats that are bad.

ValueSlim offers you a balanced low fat diet.

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Maintaining a healthy lifestyle and body weight is not just restricted to adults.

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