Slimming: 5 myths about fast food..

Quick lunch maintaining a balanced diet is not always obvious. To help you make the right choice, here are 5 ideas reviewed and corrected.

All salads help stay slim

FALSE. The salads have the advantage of making you eat vegetables poor in calories but rich in vitamins and fiber. Until then, all is well. But the plot thickens to your hips when it comes to dressing ... And very often, salads to take away or sold are already seasoned with a sauce which can be difficult to know the content. However, this is time that the lipid salad soar. The situation worsens when mayonnaise or cheese are added to the salad. The fat intake then reached 30 grams per serving and is already more than a third of the rate of fat not to exceed per day for a woman. In contrast, a salad prepared at home, for your care, with a tablespoon of oil for dressing up brings only 10 grams of fat.

The sandwiches are fattening

FALSE. The sandwiches can be perfectly balanced express lunch if you accompany a dairy or fruit. For they are not too fat, choose the free mayonnaise and garnish with a poor fat: chicken, turkey, tuna ... Avoid Viennese bread and bread. Prefer bread, which is lower in calories and help you digest better thanks to its high fiber content.

To eat healthy, avoid prepared foods

TRUE. Prepared foods contain more of the salads "hidden fat". To avoid falling into the trap of excess calories, it would take time to study the packaging carefully and choose the less rich in fat and sodium dishes. But, as everyone knows, when the lunch break, time is running out before returning to the office and you never look at the packaging ... For example, a portion of 125g of cooked pasta contains about 20 grams of fat which is almost 150 more calories than a plate of pasta with a homemade sauce.
Finally, watch out for dishes that weigh less than 300 grams, they are generally not rich enough and must be accompanied by a small entrance (salad or soup) for the meal is balanced.

Eating fast makes you fat

TRUE. It takes twenty minutes to reach satiety to the brain when you eat. Therefore, "swallow" his sandwich in 10 minutes flat is cut hunger and gives the feeling of not having enough to eat. Result: you eat again and thus too.

The pizzas are fattening

FALSE. A basic bread dough, pizza is a fairly healthy dish, rich in carbohydrates. Provided avoid too calorie toppings like cheese or sausage, pizza has its place in a balanced meal as sandwich!

The quiches are less fat than pizza

FALSE. A puff pastry or broken rich butter pastry, quiches are much fatter than the pizzas are made from bread dough. So to keep the line, try to eat only once a week.