Healthy Eating – The Key to Prosperity

During this festive season, uncontrolled eating coupled with reduced physical activity will lead to undesired weight gain.

Do you know that we can easily gain 0.5 – 1kg of body weight with an additional 500kcal per day of food intake within a week?

Thus, ratio the food intake to keep the calorie intake within 1500kcal/d for women and 2000kcal/d for men. Although keeping a balanced diet during New Year can be a challenge, it can still be achieved by making healthier food choices and incorporating physical activity.

Preparing healthier Reunion Dinner

The reunion dinner signifies the end of the lunar calender where family members gather to usher in the New Year with a variety of luxury dishes. We can use a variety of colorful vegetables such as leek, cabbage, capsicums and carrots in cooking to increase nutrients and beneficial phytochemicals for the health of family.

Besides, choose healthier cooking methods including steaming, grilling or stir frying with less oil is also one of the option to prepare healthy reunion dinner. Of course, never forget to serve fresh fruit for dessert by creating Asian fruit salad with fresh mandarin oranges, pineapples, pomelo and dragon fruit.

When the Celebration Begins

Abalone, chicken, pork, fish, yushang, shrimp rolls, love letters, pineapple tart and bak kwa all are perennial favouriates. But, we still need to beware not to overindulfe in decadent treats and caloride dense dishes. Do keep tract of your calories intake during celebration to prevent excessive eating and lead to weight gain.

Let’s take a look at the various dishes and snacks commonly eaten during Chinese New Year Festival and their estimated calories.

Table below showed the estimated calories of common dishes.