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It is very important that you eat a healthy, balanced diet regardless of whether you eat meat and dairy products or not, as in this day and age of busy modern living and long hectic working days it is too easy to reach for the calorie laden, rich convenience foods that soon see you putting on unnecessary weight.

Although vegetarian diets are generally lower in calories and fat than meat diets, many pre-packed vegetarian convenience products such as ready made ‘meat and dairy free’ pies, sausages, pizzas, crisps and cheese do contain a high amount of fat, salt and sugar (sometimes much more than the standard meat versions), and if overeaten these can cause obesity.  Balance is the key to maintaining a health weight with any diet, which should be implemented alongside a suitable fitness plan.

Convenience Foods

You can indulge yourself in convenience foods now and again, but make sure you check the labels to ensure these snacks and ready made products are not too full of fat, sugar and salt.  Ideally you should be choosing foods that have no more that 4-6g fat per 100g, and your daily fat intake should be around a total of 30-35g.

Carbohydrates

Complex carbs such as those found in whole wheat bread, wholegrain cereals, rice and oats will help fill you up and give you lots of healthy energy, so when choosing a meal plan include regular helpings of these carbs, and try and cut down on the more calorie dense carbs such as pizza, pasta, white bread and pastry.

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Five years ago Connie Culp was shot with a shotgun by her husband, Thomas. The wound left her hanging near the door of death. The blast totally destroyed her nose, cheek, upper mouth and one of her eye. Around hundreds of fragments of shotgun pallet and bone splinters were surrounded in her face. She needed an external tube into her windpipe for breathing process. The only parts of her face left were her upper eyelids, forehead, lower lip and chin.

Now, the news hat made the history is, five months ago she received a new face from a dead women. She came forward Tuesday to show off the result of the nations first face transplant. But before that, her identity was secret. The 46 year old Culp’s expressions are still bit inexpressive, but she can now talk, smell her food and smile.

“I guess I’m the one you came to see today,” Culp said at a news conference at the Cleveland Clinic, where the revolutionary operation was performed. But “I think it’s more important that you focus on the donor family that made it so I could have this person’s face.”

Dr. Risal Djohan, a plastic surgeon at the Cleveland Clinic looked at her injuries after two months. Dr. Djohan assured Culp’s that he try to fix it, but was not sure if it will work. She has undergone 30 operations for trying to fix her face. To make cheekbones, the doctors took parts from her ribs and fashioned an upper jaw from one of her leg bones. She had numerous skin grafts from her thighs. Still, she was left unable to eat solid food, breathe on her own or smell.

But on December 10th, after 22 hours operation, Dr. Maria Siemionow led a team of doctors managed to replace 80 percent of Culp’s face with bones, muscles, nerves, skin and blood vessels from another dead woman. Although other face transplant were not far-reaching as this but it was the fourth face transplant in the world.  Still, there is no information about the donor or how she died.

Culp’s face is now bloated and squarish and her skins droops in big folds that doctors hope to trim away as her circulation improves and her nerves grow, animating her new muscles.

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