Limit your consumption of fatty luncheon meats. Use liquid vegetable oils and margarines low in saturated fats instead of butter or other solid cooking fats. Mixon said the calories in the diet provide energy for the body. But taking in more calories than the body needs will result in the extra calories being stored as fat which can result in the person becoming overweight. Fats contain more than twice the number of calories as carbohydrates and proteins.
Alcohol contains almost twice the calories as carbohydrates and proteins.
Mixon said there are two ways to control the calories in your diet. The second way is to limit consumption of alcoholic beverages because of their high concentration of calories. Alcohol has almost as many calories as fat. Chronic use of alcohol suppresses the appetite, thus interfering with the consumption of nutrients. Research indicates many drinkers get 10 percent or more of their total calories from alcohol.