Chips and health
- Dietitian.Lauren Hmede
- Feb 5, 2019
- 1 min read
Weight loss: No Nutrition, only taste - How fried potato chips affect your health and weight loss efforts
Introduction:
A weight loss diet requires you to eat oil-free, non-greasy, high-fibre food and fried potato chips are anything but that.
Having chips as snack not only causes weight gain but may harm your health.
High fat and calories
Chips are high in fats and calories so they will cause weight gain.
Hypertension and cholesterol
Chips are high in sodium and overconsumption of salt will cause hypertension, in turn, can lead to serious conditions like heart attacks, strokes, etc. Fried food can also lead to a spike in LDL – bad cholesterol which can lead to coronary heart disease.
Low on nutrition
Very low nutritional value for chips exist as they are low in vitamins and minerals, they do keep you fuller for longer and in fact, take away the nutrition you could have got if you had eaten something healthier.
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