The final challenge for the Harbin Healthy You participants is to avoid fried food.  The problem with something being deep-fried is that the food absorbs a great deal of oil during the cooking process. So when you eat the end product you are consuming far more oil – an unhealthy fat in most cases – than is recommended.

Click on this article from the LIVESTRONG foundation to learn more about why frying food is unhealthy.  What steps can you take this week to remove fried foods from your diet?