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Monday, April 27, 2009

American Diet

By Robert Varnum

Healthy eating is a topic that is very important to many people today. Below are some healthier diet tips you might be interested in.

Americans are not eating proper healthy diet food. The average weight in America has gone up tremendously. While our vegetable and fruit consumption has decreased. We need to increase our intake of vegetables and fruit. You can do this by incorporating just a few very simple changes in our lifestyle.

Fruits and vegetables have many important vitamins and minerals as well as fiber. Studies have shown that people who eat greater amounts of fruits and vegetables have lower rates of heart disease, stroke and some types of cancer.

Choose vegetables in a wide range of colors to ensure that you get many of the important vitamins and minerals. The deeper the color of the fruit or vegetable, the more nutrients it contains. Choose the deeply colored sweet potatoes over white potatoes, for example.

You can also increase your vegetables and fruits to help in your weight program also. Some vegetables and fruit contain lots of fiber and water so you feel fuller faster and also many fruits are low in calories also. If you eat more of the proper foods, like fruits and vegetables, then your appetite for them will also increase. Do not forget that your intake of vegetables and fruit are substituting for the high calorie foods, so when you increase eating fruit and vegetables, you need to decrease the high calorie foods you used to eat.

Foods that you already are eating you could add some extra fruits or vegetables to. You could add fruit to your morning cereal for instance. Or if you eat omelets you could add extra vegetables to it. With your rice and pasta dishes you could add vegetables and with soups and stir fried you could add extras vegetables. You could change the high fat snacks with cut vegetables and fruit. If you make fruit and vegetables more available, you would be more likely to eat them for your healthy snacks instead of the high calorie junk food snacks.

When meal time comes, place more vegetables on you plate and always keep fresh fruit available. You could take a bag of cut fruit to work with a little yogurt as a dip or take vegetables with a low calorie dip for that mid day snack. Also you can keep dried fruit in your desk drawer for that emergency snack.

Many fast food restaurants are adding healthy alternatives to their menus. Order apple slices or a fruit bowls in place of French fries or a chicken fillet sandwich or wrap in place of a burger. Try the smoothie shop instead of the ice cream parlor for a healthier treat that also incorporates a serving of fruit.

For a healthy diet you need to eat vegetables and fruit. By adding more vegetables and fruit to your daily routine, you will do wonders for your health and you can also lose some of that unwanted weight. - 17273

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