At times like this, it is hard to maintain a healthy diet. Study conducted the New England Journal of Medicine shows that every holiday season, many people gain weight and was never able to eliminate the excess.

But do not let your desire to keep your weight just take the shine off the holiday you celebrate with family. You can still enjoy delicious Christmas dinner and new year, but the diet was maintained.

Whatever dish you should watch out for?

Turkey or roast beef

Christmas specialty is always anticipated. Both turkey, beef, chicken ataupu saturated fat. Especially in the turkey and chicken skin. In each gram, saturated fat contains more calories than carbohydrates and contribute to increased cholesterol. Meanwhile, beef and other red meat, even more should be avoided anymore because it contains more cholesterol than white meat.

Tip: We eat turkey and chicken, select meats of fat-free chest. Avoid the skin. Baked skin golden brown and crispy with a tasty sauce melt is just the most delicious part. But if you do not want the body buried in cholesterol, better avoid it.

Cakes and biscuits

Christmas is synonymous with delicious cakes and biscuits crispy. Various soft cake decorated with cream, grated cheese, and sweet butter is so tempting. Similarly, the biscuits are shaped variety. Very tempting! But this is the source of high calories. One or two pieces will not make you satisfied. Would want to eat again and again.

Tip: If you want to taste some cookies, select the fabric of wheat or cereals. Avoid overly sweet with sugar decorations, brown, or too salty cheese with the materials.

Brown

Chocolate with milk ingredients have very high fat content. But lower healthy nutrition as in dark chocolate containing cocoa. According to research, good cocoa to heart health

Tip: You can still taste the chocolate in small doses. Choose dark chocolate which contains more cocoa, about 70%. Avoid chocolate caramel given, vanilla cream, jam or sweet.