Drs. Oz and Roizen: Read food labels to lose pounds | OregonLive ...

Carrie Fisher, Marie Osmond and Valerie Bertinelli are poster girls for making and sticking to healthier food choices. (Together, they've lost more than 140 pounds.) But they have plenty of help, not to mention financial incentive, to do it. And your incentive? Good food choices and physical activity roll back your Real Age by more than 10 years (six for getting your waist below 35 inches) and help you dodge heart disease, cancers and wrinkles.
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If you want to lose 10 pounds, start reading food labels. Women who always check out the ingredients have a body mass index that's 1.5 points lower (about 10 pounds) than non-readers. Label reading is one of those good habits that helps reinforce healthy-living decisions. For even more success in making your best intentions (lowering BMI, blood pressure, blood glucose and bad LDL cholesterol) come true, here are more easy-to-adopt food shopping habits; yes, they involve required reading.??

1. Walk into the grocery store with a shopping list that contains lots of fresh fruits and veggies, lean proteins and 100 percent whole grains -- and stick to it.??

2. If you buy frozen veggies (and they're still nutrient-packed!), skip the ones with added fats, sugars and sauces.
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3. Try one new recipe a week using ingredients you don't usually eat -- artichokes? kale? salmon? (There's a mustard-crusted recipe at realage.com.)??

4. Don't buy prepared food made with palm oil, palm kernel oil or coconut oil. They're saturated fats that age you and can cause inflammation that packs on pounds.????

Dr. Mehmet Oz is host of "The Dr. Oz Show," and Dr. Mike Roizen is chief medical officer at the Cleveland Clinic Wellness Institute. For more information go to www.RealAge.com.

Source: http://www.oregonlive.com/health/index.ssf/2012/10/drs_oz_and_roizen_read_food_la.html

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