Making good food choices is important for everyone. Alpa Shah, MS, RD, CDE, a Senior Medical Manager, US Dietary Supplements, Global Medical Affairs at Pfizer, as a Nutritionist and Registered Dietitian, she believes there are two important things you can do to achieve a healthy food lifestyle—and that is to: 1) make good food choices, and 2) identify habits that you can keep doing over a long period of time, which fit easily into your daily routine, and can become a sustainable part of your life (by this, she means no fad diets!).
Find out 2 Top Tips on How to Eat Healthy
If you find dieting, losing weight and making healthy food choices difficult, look at it this way: try to get the most out of the calories you eat. Avoid foods that have a lot of calories but little nutritional value—or “empty” calories. Foods with a lot of nutrients (vitamins, minerals, complex carbohydrates, lean protein, and healthy fats) and relatively few calories are considered healthy.
Now ask yourself—is there something you are eating or drinking that you can cut out? A great (and easy) first step is to quit sugary drinks, such as soda, bottled lemonade or sweetened tea, or juiceswith sugar added. Try unsweetened teas and flavored or plain water instead. Cookies, cakes and candies are also filled with empty calories, so think about cutting those out of your diet too.
If you can cut out 500 calories from sugary beverages or snacks every week, you may see an improvement in your weight of as much as 1 to 2 pounds a week. You might miss the sweet taste but it may help you to know that your taste buds take time to change, so give yourself about 2 weeks to get used to it.
So how else can you start making good food choices? Let’s start with the grocery store. When you go food shopping, you may be faced with making decisions about what the healthiest items are to purchase. This can be a frustrating and confusing task. Your goal should be to make the healthiest choices possible that fit into your lifestyle and can be sustained over time. Here are some tips that may help you:
These two top tips make sense, right?
For more tips, please head to this article: http://www.gethealthystayhealthy.com/articles/how-to-eat-healthy
Here is another resource you can look into: http://www.webmd.com/women/guide/nutrition-101-how-to-eat-healthy
Here’s a related video on more tips on how you can eat healthy:
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OK, now go ahead and work on making food choices that are easy, healthy and tasty!