Diet & Nutrition Tips

The intention behind this article is to coerce you into sparing more than a passing thought about your Diet and Nutrition. Is the thought of changing your diet or spending money on real food overwhelming? How much mass have you gained in the last few months? When's the last time you ate fruit or vegetables? How much water are you consuming on a daily basis? If the answers to these questions don’t paint a pretty picture about your fitness, then it is a sure sign that you’ve been lulled into apathy by the so-called conveniences of junk food, fast food and processed food.

Naturally, this brings us to discuss diet and nutrition, though there's really nothing new under the sun when it comes to this topic. Since, having a healthy diet is sometimes easier said than done. It is tempting to eat less healthy foods because they might be easier to get or prepare, or they satisfy a craving. Between family and work or school, you are probably balancing a hundred things at once. Taking time to buy the ingredients for and cooking a healthy meal sometimes falls last on your list. Perhaps, what is important or what we lack, is directing our energies towards implementation. A little learning and planning can help in attaining a healthy diet and you might even relish it!

So let’s vow to make the following diet with nutritious value to boot a part of our daily meals!
Fruits: Eat a variety of fruits – whether fresh, frozen, canned or dried – rather than fruit juice for most of your fruit choices. For a 2,000 calorie diet, you will need 2 cups of fruit each day (for example, 1 small banana, 1 large orange, and some dried apricots or peaches).

Vegetable: Eat more dark green veggies, such as broccoli, and other dark leafy greens; orange veggies, such as carrots, sweetpotatoes, pumpkin, peas (split and lentils) and beans such as pinto beans, kidney beans, black beans.

Your daily doze of Calcium: 1 glass of milk equivalent amount of yogurt and/or low-fat cheese (1 1/2 ounces of cheese equals one cup of milk) – every day. For kids aged 2 to 8, its 2 cups of milk. If you don't or can't consume milk, choose lactose-free milk products and/or calcium-fortified foods and beverages.

Grains: Eat whole-grain cereals, breads, crackers, or rice, every day. One ounce is about 1 slice of bread, 1 cup of breakfast cereal, or 1/2 cup of cooked rice or pasta. See to it that grains such as wheat, rice, oats, or corn are somehow part of your diet.

Proteins: Vary your protein choices with more fish, beans, peas, nuts and seeds. Go easy on meats and poultry-bake it, broil it, or grill it.

Never knew that nutritious food could be so colourful and delightful? We suggest treat yourself to one, and savor the experience!!

Source: www.medical-health-care-information.com