Your Health Weapon -- Power Foods

Whitney Worden — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 19:19:27 GMT

Welcome to the Diet, Nutrition and Healthy Eating blog.

As you know, what you eat on a daily basis greatly affects your health and how much energy you enjoy.

You probably don't need to be reminded of the old saying that you are what you eat, but there's still a lot of truth to it. However, many of us don't take as seriously as we should what we consume on a daily basis. We forget how our choices will ultimately affect our health. After all, too much junk food can hurt us in the long run and in the short run as well, but healthy food choices can enhance our health.

Eating healthier will take some thought and some adjustments to our daily menus, but the results will be worth it.

Here are four simple suggestions to get us started on our way to healthier eating:

1. Get in the habit of reading labels when you go shopping and avoid products with too many ingredients in them that you can't pronounce.

2. Use honey and other natural sweeteners in recipes in place of white sugar.

3. Instead of eating too much red meat, eat chicken, turkey, fish and soy products instead.

4. Select natural foods and high fiber foods such as nuts, beans, fruits, vegetables, whole-grain cereals, whole grain pastas and grains.

So there you have a few beginning tips about choosing to eat in a healthier way.

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Take care,

Patricia Wagner

Diet, Nutrition & Healthy Eating Blog

Your Health Weapon -- Power Foods