The better way to control weight and be good to your heart? “Instead of simply replacing fat with carbohydrate, improve the quality of the carbohydrates you consume and incorporate healthy fats such as olive oil, fatty fish, and nuts,” says Simin Liu, MD, assistant professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School. Instead of these: Graham crackers, low-fat cookies, baked chips and salsa, vanilla wafers, bagels, jelly beans Have these: Oatmeal cookie, half a peanut butter and jelly sandwich on oat bran bread, small stone-ground whole wheat pita with hummus, canned peaches or apricots in natural juice, banana bread, 2 tablespoons peanuts
