Chicken Is Not a Vegetable - How Foods Fight Cancer

Chicken Is Not a Vegetable - How Foods Fight Cancer

Fat in Foods

Many people try to trim fat from their diets by switching from beef to chicken. Unfortunately, chicken has nearly as much fat as beef. As you’ll see in table 1, the leanest beef is about 28 percent fat (as a percentage of calories).

The leanest chicken—skinless breast meat, prepared without added fat—is not much better at about 24 percent. Fish vary, with some lower
than chicken and some higher, but the truly low-fat foods are in a class by themselves: Beans, vegetables, fruits, and whole grains are all very low in fat and, as we’ll see in later chapters, high in vitamins, minerals, and healthful fiber.

If you or your loved ones are trying to eliminate fat from your diet,
switching from beef to chicken does not bring you very far. On the other
hand, building your menu from whole grains, beans, vegetables, and fruits
is a powerful way to trim the fat.