What is a Healthy diet?
Sadly most people do not know what a healhy diet is, not because they are lazy or ignorant or do not care. Г‚ It is because there is so much information out there that it just becomes confusing. Г‚
What is even worse is that the vast majority of the information out there is not for your benefit, it is produced simply to get you to buy something. And since the commodification of food by the big corporations, who sponsor much of the research, you have to have a degree in nutrition simply to understand whether or not the research is meaningful.
Fortunately, hidden away out there among all the sales pitches and marketing information there is a great deal of information that can help you to have a healthy and balanced diet.
Lets start with the word diet. Г‚ Simply it just means what a person normally eats, or what you habitually eat and drink. Г‚ So a healthy diet simply means eating plenty of what you do need and avoiding what you don’t need.
So some simple guidelines for a balanced and healthy diet
Avoid refined carbohydrates – bread, biscuits, cake, breadrolls, pizza bases, white pasta.
Minimise stimulants – Coffee, gurana, Soda’s, sugars, alcohol.
Avoid processed meats – sausages, mince, meatloaf, pepperoni, luncheon sausage etc.
Minimise grain intake and only eat wholegrain products.
Avoid artificial flavourings, colorings, sweeteners and preservatives.
Eat fresh unprocessed foods, as much as possible.
Minimise dairy intake.
Eat lots of steamed or fresh, minimally cooked vegetables and greens.
Use whole unrefined coldpressed oils – Avocado, Grapeseed or Olive.
As far as possible eat lean, free range meats. Never grain or lot fed.
There are many other guidelines and over the coming weeks I will go into much more detail about individual foods and foodtypes.
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Talk to you soon.Г‚
August 23, 2009
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