Healthy food, fibre, fruit and vegetables  

Cut down on fried and fatty foods such as butter, margarine, cheese and fatty meats.

Choose reduced fat spreads and cheeses instead. Try skimmed or semi-skimmed milk.

Trans-fats (which may be in hard margarine, biscuits, cake for instance) are considered very harmful.

A little fat is helpful, such as polyunsaturated fat (sunflower oil). The fats in nuts are healthy, but nuts are 'fattening' as they have a lot of calories, so they are best in small amounts, perhaps replacing the saturated fat of red meat and full-fat dairy food. A new paper reviews 'healthy fats' here .

There is lots of fat in cheese (half fat)...large amounts of cheese are likely to be harmful. Meat also has plenty of fat. you only need very small portions of meat (50g)...the size of half a weetabix, and not more than once a day. Your other meal could be a brown bread salad sandwich, for example, perhaps with houmous.

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