Eat healthy

Healthy eating and being physically active are keys to a healthy lifestyle . The basic food groups have been with us since today's Grandparents were in Grade school. We just chose to ignore them.

Is it too easy for us to grap ready made easy to heat and serve meals?
Are fast food resturants must or a convenience. A convenience that cost us our health. Are fine dinning reasturant meals too rich too full of trans fat.

Eat Smart ,exercise and stay healthy. A varied, balanced diet provides the nutrients you need to avoid nutritional deficiencies. Non-nutrients, such as fiber, are also necessary to a healthy diet. Healthful eating can prevent the risk of developing certain diseases such as cancer and heart disease. It is also helpful in treating diabetes and high blood pressure. Following a special diet can reduce symptoms, and may help you better manage an illness or condition.

The recomendations on a healthy diet varies from different different health organizations and depends upon your age.

Young children need less meat and more vegetables.
Only 1 in 7 people living in North America exercise.
Only 1 in 7 eats enough fruit and grains

Some Healthful guidlines

~ eat breakfast. Many studies show that adults who eat breakfast are more alert and attentive at work. Studies also breakfast eaters are leaner.
include whole grain and fruit in your breakfast. Avoid Donuts and faty bacon.

~ eat snacks Eating snacks avoid a hunger rush of over eating at meal times.
Eat healthy snacks. Fruit is good. No nuta sweet is not a good subsitute for sugar.

~ eat more whole grains Stay away form those enriched white products. Whole grains may help protect against several chronic diseases, including cardiovascular disease, stroke, type 2 diabetes, and certain cancers. Whole grains also can help combat high cholesterol, and because they are high in fiber, they are satisfying and make you feel full longer.

~ include friut and Vegetables Fruit and vegetables are brimming with fibre, plus a whole range of vitamins and minerals, and because they're low in calories, they make an important and healthy addition to any diet.

~ get your vitamins Eating a wide variety of fruit and vegetables means you're more likely to get all the vitamins and minerals you need

~ Cut out Trans fats Trans fats are artificial fats made when hydrogen gas reacts with oil. They can be found in cookies, crackers, icing, potato chips, margarine and microwave popcorn. Numerous studies have found that trans fats raise our risk of heart disease. Trans fats not only raise total cholesterol levels, they also deplete good cholesterol (HDL), which helps protect against heart disease.

~ Execise makes your body happy. It keeps you feeling health,wiser and younger. Remember the saying use it or lose it. Exercise burns calories. keeping the body iin shape. Your heart loves exercise.Exercis e stimulates your muscels.

~ Drink water all living things need water When your body doesn't have enough water, that's called being dehydrated. Dehydration also can keep you from being as fast and as sharp as you'd like to be. A bad case of dehydration can make you sick. Water is necessary for your body to digest and absorb vitamins and nutrients. It also detoxifies the liver and kidneys, and carries away waste from the body. And when it comes to digestion . . . it's just not happening without water. Fiber alone cannot aid proper digestive function by itself. In fact, without water as its partner, good fiber goes bad, causing constipation and extreme discomfort.

Research shows that a healthy lifestyle reduces stress and leads to a longer more product life.