How To Balance Your Food Choices Over Time

By Author: Kirthy Shetty
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If you think your eating habits are bad and need some change in your diet and life style, do not go to change them over night. Any change that occurs all of a sudden is not good for you. Do it gradually by practicing a healthy diet regimen. Is it difficult to find an answer for healthy diet?

Balance your food choices over time. Read out this article to find out how you can achieve this. One type of food is not perfect and requires a combination of other products too. If you had food high in fat, salt or sugar, compensate that by selecting other foods that are low in these ingredients. Just in case you skip any food group one day, you need to make up for it the next day. Your food should provide the right amount of fuel to execute normal physical activity. If the total amount of nutrients provided in the diet is insufficient, a state of mal-nutrition will develop. Many healthy foods prescribed by dietician are not tasty enough but they are very important to stay healthy and away from your disease such as Blood pressure, high cholesterol and diabetes etc.

Food group should comprise of:

Milk and milk products: ...
... milk, yoghurt, cheese
Fruits and vegetables: vegetables and fruits must be consumed raw. Make your vegetables tasty by making salad out of them, add cheese, pepper and salt to sprouted green gram, carrot and cabbage with some lime juice squeezed in. Tastes good and is healthy too. Also adds fibre to your body.

Breads and cereals: Oats, bread, cereals, pasta, rice or whole grain products is also important in your every day diet. Two slices of bread, a cup of pasta or rice will be sufficient. It is better to have minimum 5 serves per day.

Meat and other alternatives: Fish, chicken, meat for non vegetarians and vegetarians can opt for peas, nuts, dried beans, lentils and eggs as substitutes for meat. One serve of any of these is ideal. It should be sandwich with salad and cheese, 2 small eggs, a cup of peas, 80-120 gms of fish.

Additional foods include: You can have biscuits - 2 plain biscuits, one and a half scoops of ice-cream etc.

Follow this food pyramid and your food choices will soon fall in place into a healthy pattern. For those who don't like the taste of milk, you can have soya milk or skimmed milk.

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