Just the Basics: How to Eat Healthy

Despite the myriad diet plans available today, there are a few general principles governing how to eat healthy. First and foremost, your food should be whole and unprocessed. Fresh fruits, vegetables, and meat are readily available and simple to prepare. Most of these foods are available frozen in a relatively unadulterated form if fresh is not available.

Canned foods tend to contain a lot of salt and other preservatives. Frozen entrees are filled with all sorts of chemical additives, both for flavor and preservation. If you can’t read the ingredients, you probably don’t need to be putting them in your body.

Eating a healthy diet requires a good balance of protein, carbohydrates and fat. Do not worry about needing to eat low fat or low carb as long as you are eating a good balance and getting all your nutrients; however, that’s not a license to free-for-all in carbs or fat. Good fats include nuts, olive oil, avocados, etc. When attempting to eat healthy, fat consumption does need to be somewhat limited, but not extremely restrictive. The USDA recommends 20 – 35 percent of your daily calories be from fat.

Healthy carbohydrates include mainly fruits and vegetables. Starchy vegetables such as potatoes provide high carb content and are filling and provide a high level of satiety. If you just want to chew on a lot of something, vegetables such as green beans, celery, and asparagus are nutritious, yet low enough in carbs that you really can eat all you want and not worry about gaining weight.

People who know how to eat healthy avoid processed carbohydrates as a healthy diet priority. Foods such as pastries and white pastas not only have been stripped of nutrition, but are high in calories and trigger cravings for more.  Protein should also be consumed to provide the amino acids required for many cellular functions, and DNA production.

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