Therapeutic Lifestyle Changes (TLC) diet developed more diabetics in mind. This diet is recommended for people with high cholesterol, heart disease and other cardiovascular diseases and those who have been diagnosed with diabetes.
This diet is a set of guidelines that gives the percentage of coverage that patients should eat from each group. The goal is to provide flexibility in the choice, while ensuring that the choices made useful, as long as is under consideration. In the beginning was a good idea to work with dieticians to ensure that the calculations are made accurate and that you are doing the best choices of food decisions.
TLC diet provides the following foods:
* The number of fat eaten on that day must add up to less than 25-35% of calories consumed
* From 25-35% from fat should be divided into the following categories: less than 7% saturated, monounsaturated less than 20%, 10% polyunsaturated
* 50-60% of the days of the calories should come from carbohydrates
* Eat at least 20-30 grams of fiber each day of high-quality
* Protein intake should be 15-20% of calories per day
* Cholesterol should be limited and kept under 200 mg
As diet is a set of guidelines that do not include calculations required to determine whether you meet the requirements necessary to make an appointment with a nutritionist to figure out what to do. Once you have demonstrated how to make the calculations and obtained the food samples, you can use it as a template to create multiple versions of the TLC diet. You can also take most of this information by reading the nutrition label on the package.