mercredi 25 juillet 2012

Diet Ideas To Help You Live A Healthier Life

By Dwayne Garcia


Contrary to what the popular media emphasizes, good nutrition isn't simply about getting thin enough for your next high school reunion. Good nutrition has a number of other benefits, as well, including better circulation and stronger bones. These tips will help you become someone who can say, "I eat a great diet."

To make your eating habits healthier, it's important to first check your diet and see where most of your extra calories and unhealthy foods are coming from. Do you tend to add a lot of sauces and salad dressings to otherwise healthy foods? Then be aware of that and make sure to cut back on the use of those ingredients.

For a non-alcohol version of mulled wine, try mulled Concord grape juice. Use the same spices you would use for mulled wine, and add honey for extra sweetness if you desire. Keeping a pot of this delicious, nourishing drink warming on your stove through the winter to enjoy frequently, will help you stay healthy thanks to the beneficial spices and the vitamins provided by the grape juice.

It may seem odd at first, but try adding some seaweed to your meals to make them healthier. Many seaweeds, like nori, kombu and dulse, have very high nutritional content with lots of vitamins and minerals. These plants have been eaten for thousands of years in cultures living near the sea.

Increase the amount of foods in your diet that are high in water. Certain fruits such as strawberries, cantaloupe and cucumbers have a lot of water in them and when you eat them it helps you to stay hydrated. Being hydrated helps you to have healthy skin, hair and nails.

Nutrition in infants is very easy. Under the age of six months, an infant needs nothing but breast milk or formula. Once the child has reached six months old, pediatricians recommend that you introduce solid foods. This is more for acceptance than nutrition, as breast milk and formula has all the nutrition that an infant needs in the first year of life.

Avoid depression with proper nutrition. Studies have shown that poor diet can lead to clinical depression. Depressed people are often lacking in many vitamins and nutrients necessary to keep a positive sunny outlook on life. If you start eating well, your mental blues are likely to dissipate in no time.

Eating unsaturated fats is generally preferable to saturated fats. Saturated fats are known to have a negative effect on the human body's arteries due to their tendency to accumulate in them. These platelets of cholesterol can slowly build up and eventually block passages. Unsaturated fats are unable to perform the same procedure because they lack the small shape of saturated fats.

Now that you have read a few tips describing how to eat healthily, all that remains is to get started doing it. There is a lot of temptation in the form of fast foods and a vast array of processed junk sold at the supermarket. But with a solid nutrition plan you can rise above that temptation and forge a new, healthy you.




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