A Diet to Last

Healthy eating doesn't mean being stick thin or being deprived of your favourite snacks. No, healthy eating is about looking after your body in the right ways. Learning to eat healthy can boost energy, sharpen your mind and make you feel tons better. You can expand your range of healthy food choices and learn how to plan ahead to create and keep up a healthy diet.

Healthy Tip 1:
Change your diet gradually to help your body get used to it. Take baby steps towards your ideal healthy diet.
Depriving yourself from "bad foods" make you crave them more, so cut down on them gradually and your craving should decrease.

Healthy Tip 2:
Breakfast is the key meal, this is what starts you off in the morning. Eat a good size portion of cereal and then to snack on, eat a piece of fruit. Drink plenty of water throughout the day with small portions following.

Healthy Tip 3:
Eat a rainbow of foods, the brighter they look on your plate the better. Eat a variety of fruit and vegetables aswell as meats and proteins. Eating healthy carbohydrates and fiber sources, especially whole grains, gives long lasting energy.

Healthy Tip 4:
Healthy diets are not restricting to yourself to foods you think are healthy, some "bad foods" aren't all that bad. Your body needs some of that bad stuff to function too, to keep it balanced. Include in your diet:

• Polyunsaturated fats, including Omega-3 and Omega-6 fatty acids, found in fatty fish such as salmon, mackerel, sardines, and some cold water fish oil supplements. Other sources of polyunsaturated fats are unheated sunflower, corn, soybean, and flaxseed oils, and walnuts.         
• Monounsaturated fats: from plant oils like canola oil, peanut oil, and olive oil, as well as  avocados,nuts (like almonds, hazelnuts, and pecans), and seeds (such as pumpkin, sesame).