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Saturday, July 28, 2012

Try These Basic Advice For Better Nutrition

English: Healthy nutrition pyramid with 7 to 9...
English: Healthy nutrition pyramid with 7 to 9 servings of fruits and vegetables to get precious phytonutrients to feed your body at the cellular level. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
By Dax Ulma


You probably know what kind of foods you should stay away from, but do you actually eat what you are supposed to? These tips should help you adopt a better diet: find out how you can easily introduce healthy habits into your daily life. Lose weight, live longer and feel better thanks to a good nutrition.



For all humans--and especially aging women and growing children--calcium is critical for bone health and many other physical necessities. To ensure that your kids and your own body benefit from good levels of calcium, make adjustments to your diet. Dairy products, especially milk, are rich in calcium; by adding them to your diet, you ensure that your body gets the calcium it needs for bone and tooth health.

To ensure that you always have some high-quality protein readily available, pick up some frozen boneless and skinless chicken breasts to keep in the freezer. They're easy to defrost in a covered skillet over low heat, and you can finish cooking them in the same pan. Add some instant rice and fresh vegetables for an easy nutritious dinner.

Reading labels is an important way to keep track of what nutrients you and your family are getting out of the foods you eat. You can find out information about calories, serving size, and what vitamins and minerals you're getting and how much of them is in each serving. You can also find out if you're getting too much of a bad thing.

Focus on food labels. Always look at the fat and sugar content of foods when shopping. Check the ingredients list, as they are listed in order of weight. Certain nutritional food claims can be misleading. 'Light' or 'reduced fat' may be just that, but it can still be very high in calories, due to the sugar content.

Find out how many calories you actually need. Knowing the actual amount of calories you should be eating is a quick way to put yourself in the mindset for healthy eating. Once you know how many calories you need, you can figure out what foods are the healthiest to help you reach that goal.

Choose dark chocolate over milk or white chocolate. The flavonoids contained in dark chocolate have been shown to help reduce blood pressure. These antioxidants also improve cholesterol levels increasing the good and decreasing the bad. Just be sure to choose chocolate that contains at least 70 percent cocoa to maximize the benefits. Don't go overboard; chocolate is still a high calorie food so enjoy it in moderation.

If you have a child who is a picky eater and you are worried that they aren't getting enough nutrition, try hiding vegetables in other foods. Use pumpkin or zucchini in muffins, or puree carrots and apples in a pasta sauce. There are lots of ways to sneak fruits and vegetables into snack foods for your child.

Aim to eat a lot of baked foods rather than fried. Baked foods are generally better for your body and come with a much lower count of calories, oils and carbohydrates. Also, you will feel a lot more energetic during the day if you consume quality baked foods on a daily basis.

Initially, the food industry was praised for using science to find a way to create inexpensive food and feed many more people than was possible before the innovations. But with the rise of deficiencies and disease, a new focus on nutrition has arisen, and people have begun to question how the science has undermined basic rules of nutrition.




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