Eating Healthy can Be Fun!

Healthy Eating Tips

Nutrition, diet, and healthy eating are often words that no one likes.

Eating healthy doesn't mean you can't eat foods that are enjoyable and you can't splurge every once in a while. The secret is to control portions, control the types of foods eaten, and to watch those carbohydrates!

The first step in eating healthy is to change the size of the portions eaten.

Today, people don't eat a normal portion; some eat two portions, some eat three or more. In addition to changing eating habits and portion sizes, it's important to make healthy food choices. Many healthy food store listings available in our directory that you can check out. Baked instead of fried; fish instead of beef; fruit instead of candy, etc. Even though these are well-known facts, everyone doesn't always make heal thy choices.

By choosing a diet high in vegetables, fruit, and lower in sweets and fats, eating habits can be changed one step at a time but once a person gets used to drinking tea without sugar, Sweetened tea will actually taste too sweet. Cereal normally has sugar already added. Try cereal without adding extra sugar, or add less sugar. Here is a blog where we talk about  reasons to avoid using sugar.

Choose fruits in natural juices and fruit juices without sugar added.

In addition to no sugar or smaller amounts of sugar, there are many sugar-free products that can quench the "sweet tooth." Even the types of fat that foods have to make a difference in whether the food is a healthy choice or not. Unsaturated fats lower the risk of heart disease. Polyunsaturated, monounsaturated and omega-3 fats also reduce the risk of heart disease.

Saturated fats and trans fats increase the risk of heart disease.

All fats are high in calories, though, so even if it's a good fat, the amount eaten needs to be limited. By choosing healthier foods, eating smaller portions, and checking labels to make sure added sugars, fat, and other Lunhealthy items aren't included, it's possible to control what is eaten and not feel deprived or lacking.

The recipes and the way food is prepared also make a difference. In order to make nutritional eating fun- eat fun foods!

Fun food snack items:

• Celery with peanut butter
• Apple slices sprinkled with cinnamon and sugar
• Vegetables (carrot sticks, celery sticks, broccoli florets) with ranch dressing or dip Fruit salad