Moderation and wise choices may be the key to a healthy fast-food meal. An occasional fast food meal can easily fit into a weight loss or a healthy diet.
For instance, eating small portion sizes help you keep your calorie intake under control.
If several meal sizes are available, always pick the smallest one. A hamburger and three beef patties have seventy grams of fat and about 1,000 calories while a children`s size hamburger lets you eat only about 300 calories. You are better off choosing the children’s size hamburger.
You may save about 300 calories if you give up the regular French fries or onion rings portion size, and take smaller portions. Or, instead of French fries, chose a baked potato or a salad with low-fat dressing. Other healthy choices at fast food restaurants include fruits, yogurt, steamed rice, apple or orange slices, baked potato chips, or corn.
Don`t avoid vegetables at fast foods. You may have an entrée salad with chicken, shrimp or garden vegetables with low-fat dressing. This choice may help you save 300 calories per packet. Avoid as much as possible salads with deep-fried shells, cheese, croutons, fried chips, bacon bits, or breaded chicken.
On the other hand, you may have grilled or roasted turkey or chicken breast, lean roast beef, or lean ham. Always ask for reduced-fat mayonnaise for your sandwich. If you`re at a Mexican fast food restaurant, ask for salsa instead of nacho cheese sauce or shredded cheese. Avoid tartar sauce, high-calorie condiments, special dressings, and sour cream. To read the rest of this article, go to Project Weight Loss, an online weight loss community featuring calorie counter, carbs counter, BMI calculator, diet planner, workout planner and other weight loss tools.
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Why is my kitten vomiting canned food?
I have a kitten that is about 14 wks old. When I feed her dry food she keeps it down but if she eats canned food she usually throws most of it up. I have tried several varieties and she still throws up. She is an "overeater" who will eat very fast and also eat some of my other cats food if given the opportunity. I have read that all dry food diets are not ideal for cats. She has an incredible apppetite but is up to date on all vaccinations and has been dewormed. She is kept indoors at all times. My vet says if it continues she will do a series of xrays with contast. It just does not seem possible for it to be any type of obstruction since she can eat dry food. Anyone ever had a cat that does not tolerate canned food? Other than this, she is gaining weight and is very playful.
It could be too rich for her – are you feeding kitten food or adult? If you’re feeling adult then you should change to kitten as it’s more suited to her young digestive system. You say she’s an ‘overeater’ – are you giving her too much in one sitting? If she eats everything on the plate there may simply not be enough room in her little stomach!! Try giving her small portions and see how she gets on, if that doesn’t work then the vet may need to do more investigative work after all.
Good luck!
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give her smaller portions. she is vomiting because she is eating to much too fast. Give her a small amout then give her a couple of hours and give some more. but you need to carefull you don’t overfeed her or she will get fat
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It may just be too harsh on her tummy. As far as dry food…that’s all I feed my cats and I was under the impression that it was fine t do that. I have had cats my whole life, normally feeding dry and wet, but my two now (mother/daughter) will NOT eat wet food. I give them the occasional tuna fish but that’s all they’ll eat. It is weird that she is scarfing her food down, normally cats "save" some. Have you thought about a tape worm? She may have that and feels hungry all of the time…it would also explain her vomiting. You’d be able to see the worms though in her poop so if you haven’t I’m not sure. I would try giving her a little bit at a time. Maybe a spoonful every 5 minutes or so.
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She is more than likely vomiting after wet food but not dry food because she doesn’t have to chew the wet food and is basically inhaling it. She is overeating and that is leading to the vomiting. You need to slow her down. You can mix the two together if you want to feed both so at least she would have to chew it. As long as you are feeding a high quality dry food with a protein source as the main ingredient, she shouldn’t need wet food. In my humble opinion, unless your cat is not drinking enough or has issues which makes it difficult for your cat to chew dry food, then there is no reason to feed them wet food. I have found that my cats have greater tartar buildup and a greater incidence of dental disease if fed wet food. I am sure that there are many opinions out there on that, but that is just in my experience. Just stick to dry food for her if it works!
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Often the can food is too much for a kitten – not all kittens, but some, so they will throw it up. Also, they tend to like it more, and will wolf it down – eating too fast or too much .
You can try to mix it with the hard food. This will help her to eat slower. Also, monitor her portions and feed her a couple of times a day rather than just once if you can. And feed the kitten and the other cats separately when giving wet food.
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A kitten formula canned food IS the best food. Dry food is filled with non nutritional ingredients and can chronically dehydrate a cat. But the vomitting is a bit alarming. Did you switch her food suddenly? I would suggest that feeding smaller amounts more often might help. You may also want to look at the ingredients, because if there is wheat or corn in it she might be having an allergic reaction.
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http://www.catinfo.org
http://www.catnutrition.org
All of the about answers (3 first replies) are correct.
She’s prob. eating too fast (being a ‘piggy’) and puking up the amt.
Do try smaller amts. at a time and see.
I only have problems in the "reverse",… my cats seem to always puke up the dry kibble (no matter what type of high quality,…. although Sc. Diet dry is bad) and always keep down the cat wet fds.!
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Try serving smaller meals more frequently. Also, you could try a different canned food. My cats eat Wellness canned food + Iams Hairball Care dry food. Good luck.
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We had this problem with previous cats with any type of FISH product. The platters, the combos and all of that were out and it didn’t matter what kind of fish. Ultimately, we just used Turkey and Giblets. I can tell you from experience that if it is, in fact, that issue, you may be better off rehoming your cat in an only cat environment. It’s very difficult to keep an food allergy cat in a multicat household without the cat getting worse.
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I don’t know what type of food you are using so, I’ve found the only one that doesn’t get vomited up as frequently is friskies. I have an older cat and a younger one. The older one gobbles it up to fast and sometimes it doesn’t stay down. Make sure you only give it a little out a time. Mine are full grown and I give them a 1/4 can each at breakfast and the same for dinner. If they eat to fast it seems to come up. The only way to get her to slow down is cut her ration in half and space it out some over the day. Of course if she is over eating that will cause her to vomit also.
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