Eating Great Food Improves Your Life to the Max

By Trey Hartlage


Ideally, maintaining a balanced diet should be easy, with concrete rules to follow. These days many charlatans hope to profit by presenting contradictory reports and instructions regarding diet and nutrition, but sticking with the basics is really all you need to do to feed yourself and your family correctly. Here are some quick tips on what you should do to make being healthy a lifestyle.

Think of the colors of the rainbow and the corresponding fruits and vegetables. Brightly hued varieties of fruits and vegetables will provide you with optimum levels of nutrition and often contain few calories. Try and include a brightly colored food or two in every meal that you prepare. Eating the edible skin of fruits is nutritionally beneficial, as they contain a lot of antioxidants.



You should always opt for fresh fruit instead of fruit juices. Fruit juice can contain added sugars while the sugars in fresh fruits are entirely natural. Some fruit juices are higher in sugar than a can of cola. Whole fruit offers crucial vitamins, minerals and fiber which may prevent some chronic diseases, including cardiovascular issues.

Try serving baked potatoes instead of french fries for a healthier potato dish. Slice the potato in half, and then decorate both halves with low-fat cheese, peas, and cheery tomatoes to form faces on each half.

Experts agree that you need to reduce the amount of processed flour and grains in your diet. Grains that are highly milled have had their hulls eliminated, meaning there is less fiber in the grain. Doesn't discarding the hull, then fortifying it with additives seems like a roundabout method of getting proper nutrition from grains? No, it doesn't.

Every 100 grams of quinoa, a tasty grain, are host to 14 nutritious grams of protein. Quinoa can be used in many different dishes. Make a pilaf with it, or mix it with some chopped apples topped with brown sugar for a sweet yet healthy breakfast.

Try describing what a food feels like, looks like and tastes like to get them to try a new food. Telling them how a food feels on the tongue might get them to try something they would normally resist.

Do you know more about nutrition than you did before? Have you gotten a proper nutrition plan in the works? Do you know the right things to add to your meals to meet your special needs? Is your plan working for you? Hopefully, the information and techniques from this article gave you the right answers to the above questions.




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