We had talked in detail about “empty calories” and 10 Ways to Cut Hundreds of Empty Calories Through The Day previously in a post. These empty calories can hamper your weight loss efforts, and to counter that, one should include nutrient-dense foods that have loads of vitamins, protein, minerals and other essential nutrients capsuled in fewer calories. People who want to lose weight and get healthy in general should avoid calories that come in the form of transfat, saturated fat, high sodium, and added sugar. The idea behind including nutrient-dense food in the daily diet is to get maximum amount of nutrients for the calories consumed because they are amazing for overall health as well. To begin with, most nutrient-rich foods can have vitamins, minerals, protein, fiber, phytochemicals, antioxidants, etc., and they would be low in sugar, starch, and unhealthy fats. For example, a cup of white rice would have approximately 242 calories (most of them carbs) and the same quantity of
That bag of yummy potato chips that you grab when you are binge watching your favorite web series or a slice of pizza that you absolutely cannot resist at the party would flood your body with hundreds of empty calories that are most probably going to be stored as fat instead of getting utilized because they lack any nutritional value. Empty calories do not have nutritional benefit and do not fill you up either. Needless to say, eliminating foods with empty calories can make your weight loss journey easier and you can reach goal weight relatively faster. In fact, cutting out empty calories can fast forward your journey to goal weight. Instead we should be aiming at replacing empty calories with nutrient-dense food that would supply the body with vitamins, protein, fiber, antioxidants, and other essential minerals that the body needs to function properly. Quality is equally important as quantity when it comes to calories because not all calories are created equal. Consider this, eating