Women's Fitness

GOLDEN RULES OF FOOD

1 FOCUS ON GOOD FATS

‘Eating fatty foods makes you fat’ may sound like a logical assumption, but it’s a bit more complicated than that. It is true that at nine calories per gram, fat is more calorific than carbohydrate or protein – which contain four calories per gram – but certain fats are a crucial part of your diet. The mono- and polyunsaturated fats that occur naturally in foods, such as oily fish, nuts, seeds, olives and coconut oil, for example, play key roles in boosting metabolism, improving hormone synthesis and

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