Breaking the Myths: Stay Healthy While Getting Oily

When I was a child, I never really thought about my weight, skin or what so ever. I eat anything I want; junk food and snack at night. Until couple years ago, I realized that I already overweight when I saw my friend’s scale. She wasn’t too skinny, I thought maybe our scale only a few pounds in difference (I think it was my hallucinations), but the reality, I was 20 pounds….heavier!  I was shock, like really, really shock. My friends told me some foods that will make me fat because they’re all oily, some was (are actually) my favorite foods. But not all of them are that bad, I mean, some of them are oily in a good way.

I know you must be confuse and thinking “what the hell on earth is that?? Oily but healthy?? Does that thing ever exist?”  I proudly say, YES!!! They are oily, but yummy, moreover, HEALTHY! Penasaran? Here’s some my favorite oily, delicious, & healthy food (and ingredients):

1.     Avocado

Yes, this green fruit is indeed HIGH in fat, but the GOOD fat which actually helps you at heart-healthy diet! What makes you fat is when you drink avocado juice with milk & sugar. Milk (fat) + sugar (glucose) = FAT. Sometimes my dad use fat free milk instead of ordinary milk for avocado juice and dark chocolate syrups for me. It taste good, do you know that dark chocolate is also good for your heart, brain, and control blood sugar? Yap, avocado + dark chocolate = HEALTHY & TASTY.

2.     Fatty Fish

My mom always tells me to eat fish’s oil when she cooks milkfish. I know it’s tasty and soft (some people don’t like it very much, but I do) but why? Its fat, isn’t it? If it’s a fish fat, then if I eat that, it will be my fat, right? At least that what little me thought. Then my mom said, fatty, oily fish are rich in omega -3 fatty acids, so it’s good to prevents me from heart disease or cholesterol. You can find this benefit in salmon and also tuna. That’s why now I’m falling in love with salmon sashimi, yummm..

3.     Olive Oil

Have you ever eaten salad at the restaurant? Long time ago, I ordered salad at a restaurant claims that they serve healthy food. I realized that they added oil into it, but it was different with oil that I used at home, its more light. That’s the first time I tried olive oil. Yes, people use olive oil for their salad, because olive oil can helps you to lower your cholesterol! Isn’t that awesome??? Recently, my grandma (not my mom, she doesn’t believe about the benefit, so she still use ordinary oil) dumped her ordinary oil and start using olive oil. Yeay! Hallelujah!

Believe it or not, not all fats are bad.