Nutrition: “You Are What You Eat!”

Where Do I Start?

Okay, you realize that your diet isn’t what it should be. Perhaps you’re curious if you could make it better. What changes will give you the most bang for your buck? What can you do to see your nutrition change for the better?

Make a lifestyle change, instead of just a temporary “diet”. 

Here is the list to start working at one at a time:

1. Eliminate drinking cow’s milk.

2. Limit red meat to a bare minimum. When choosing red meat, try to choose grass fed hormone-free beef.

3. Increase your raw or slightly cooked vegetable consumption. Increase the variety that you eat.  (Having frozen peas 3 nights a week doesn’t count! :-)

4. Increase your fish consumption (not shellfish). Especially the oily fish.

5. Eliminate ingesting “partially hydrogenated” fats and oils.

6. Increase your fruit intake. Vary the variety here as well.

7. Eliminate white bread and switch to whole grain bread.

8. Greatly reduce refined sugar from your diet. Try to eliminate corn sweeteners.

9. Eliminate artificial sweeteners from your diet (especially aspartame, a.k.a. NutraSweet).

10. Eliminate soda/pop from your diet.

So, what’s left? A Lot!

Unfortunately, we have gotten ourselves trained to eat the same basic, limited diet based on convenience. We need to get away from the old standby and get into true healthy eating! There’s a lot more out there on health and healthy eating. Get some basic knowledge and start looking at what else you would like to do.