Simple switches for healthy eating
Numerous researches have been done to prove that a healthy diet leads to a healthy life. A healthy diet can lower your risk for the most serious diseases. Healthy eating can prevent possibly 80% of cases of heart disease and diaÂbetes and help ward off hypertenÂsion, osteoporosis, and some forms of cancer.
So switch to healthy eating and start the healthy life now:
- instead of butter, solid margarine, or lard, try olive oil, canola oil, or margarine without trans fats
- instead of cream-based sauces, try tomato-based sauces.
- instead of corn flakes, special K, or other refined-grain cereal, try cheerios, wheaties, or other whole-grain cereal
- instead of white pasta, try whole-wheat pasta
- instead of smoked, cured, salted, or canned meat or fish, try fresh or frozen meat or fish, without added salt
- instead of sugared soda or juice, try water or juice mixed with sparkling water
- instead of fries or onion rings, try roasted vegetables
- instead of dips high in saturated fats, try hummus, peanut butter, or seasoned low-fat yogurt
- instead of cookies, try Graham crackers or oatmeal cookies
- instead of fried foods, try grilled, broiled, steamed, poached, or roasted foods
- instead of skipping breakfast, try eating oatmeal, whole-grain breads, or bran cereals
Source: Harvard Health Newsletter
