American Diet Learn To Eat Healthy

American Diet

By: Robert Varnum

A topic that is important to a lot of people is Healthy eating. Here are some healthier diet tips.


Americans are not eating proper healthy diet food. The average weight in America has gone up tremendously. While our vegetable and fruit consumption has decreased. We need to increase our intake of vegetables and fruit. You can do this by incorporating just a few very simple changes in our lifestyle.


Everyone knows that vegetables and fruits are important for good nutrition so most of us try to eat more of them. But did you know that if you eat more vegetables and fruit it will decrease your chance of getting cancer, stroke and heart disease?


Do not forget to eat all your colors because that will ensure you receive the proper number of minerals and vitamins. The deeper the color in vegetables and fruit means they have more nutrients in them.


Increasing your fruit and vegetable intake can be helpful in a weight loss program as well. The water and fiber content in fruits and vegetables helps you to feel fuller, quicker and they are often low in calories. The more of the right foods that you eat, the less room you will have for the unhealthy foods. As you eat more of the healthy foods, your appetite for them will increase as well. Remember that the fruits and vegetables are a substitute for the higher calorie foods, not in addition to them. If you only add fruits and vegetables to your current diet then you will be increasing your calorie intake, not reducing it.


You can add extra vegetables and fruit to your favorite foods that already have them in them. First thing in the morning you could add extra fruit to your cereal or add more vegetables to an omelet. To meals that are loaded with pasta and rice you could add vegetables to them and also you could add more of your favorite vegetables to stir fry dishes and soups. As an alternative to high fat snacks you could purchase pre washed vegetables and fruit for your snacks.You would be more likely to eat healthy snacks if they were as available as the convenient junk food snacks.


When meal time comes, place more vegetables on you plate and always keep fresh fruit available. You could take a bag of cut fruit to work with a little yogurt as a dip or take vegetables with a low calorie dip for that mid day snack. Also you can keep dried fruit in your desk drawer


for that emergency snack.


Fruits and vegetables are necessary for a healthy diet. By incorporating more of them into your daily routine at home and at the office, you can do wonders for your general health and you can also shed a few pounds in the process.



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Robert Varnum is the owner of Anne's Market Place.