There is a wrong notion that starchy foods such as rice and bread are high in calories. Many dieters frequently reduce or cut out some of the cereals from their diet. The basic cereals and plain bread are not high on calories.
Another misconception is that if you eat bread or chapatti instead of rice. Rice and wheat contain same number of calories.
A lot of people cut on sugar in tea/coffee to reduce calorie intake but do not skip on the snacks likes (eq. processed and packaged low fat/low sugar biscuits, muffins, etc.)
1 tsp of sugar has – 20 calories:
Biscuits/Cookies has – 50 – 100 calories
A lot of packaged and processed foods have their label has low fat or low sugar foods. These foods seem to appear healthy but the low fat foods often have hidden calories in form of GOBS of sugar. Thus they are low on fat but high on sugar. Similarly sugar free foods are substituted with artificial sweeteners or are high in fat content. So that right way to choose is to read the Nutrient label correctly, since it is substituting one Bad ingredient for another Bad ingredient.
Manufacture of vegetable oils make a number of claims. They play on your fear of getting heart trouble. Some claim you should use a particular vegetable oil since it has high polyunsaturated fatty acids and no cholesterol thus beneficial for heart patients.
The fact is all vegetable oils. (except olive oil and coconut oil) contain high polyunsaturated fatty acid. Vegetable oil has no cholesterol. Thus do not confuse nature of oil of fat with their calories value. All types of fat have same number of calories. So an advertisement of an oil containing less or low calories, you must know that it is not true.
Desi eggs are more nutritious than vilayati eggs or vice versa. They are not. The prefix desi or vilayati indicate the breed of hen and not the composition of egg