Tips For Healthy Meals For You And Your Family! Tips For Healthy Meals For You And Your Family! Nutrition can be a useful thing. No really, it can be. In terms of taking better care of yourself through a healthier diet to make yourself healthier is truly a useful thing. To start learning some basics as to how to make this work for you, refer to the tips below. Using cream in recipes may make your food taste really good and rich, but it will also make your waistline expand. Try substituting the cream with silken tofu. It still has the creamy texture, but it offers other benefits such as some extra protein into your favorite home-cooked meals. Believe it or not, salad is not always your best bet when it comes to dining out. Fast food restaurants and chain eateries often offer up side salads that reach into the thousand calorie range - and thats before you add dressing and croutons. If you are at a restaurant and the salad still looks like your best bet, ask your waiter to bring out the dressing on the side. This ensures that you will not be forced into consuming an unnecessarily generous amount of dressing. Better yet, opt for fat-free dressings. Curb winter food cravings and overeating. The combination of the holiday season and the fact that we spend a lot of time indoors in the winter, makes it very easy to binge on food that is less than nutritious. Make sure that you balance out all the sweets and treats that you eat at holiday gatherings with fresh fruit and veggies, and high fiber foods. Stock your refrigerator with healthy snacks, and aim for the fruit plate at parties. Turn pizza from a very unhealthy choice into a more nutritional meal. A couple of little tricks are to load your pizza with vegetable toppings or if you are a meat lover, make sure to use lean meat like chicken or turkey. Remember to drink lots of water throughout the day. It has many benefits unrelated to diet as well but when you are trying to lose weight it can help to satisfy the psychological need to put something in your mouth and stomach. It will also help to feel more full even when you are not. Balance your daily diet against your bodys composition. If you use a body fat scale, you can see what percentage of your weight is fat, muscle, and water. For optimum health, you want to keep a low body fat percentage. If yours is high, reduce the amount of fat in your diet. If your muscle mass percentage is high, consider increasing the amount of protein in your diet, to feed that muscle. Make two dinners per week that do not include meat. You can easily replace the meat with other nutritious protein sources that include vegetables, beans, and whole grains. Doing so will help reduce fat and increase your fiber intake. You may find that it reduces your grocery bill, too! So, now do you see why nutrition is such a useful thing? Discovering your own nutrition and working upon it to eat and be healthier is indeed quite useful. The tips above should have created a good foundation for you to build upon and find a nutrition plan that is right for you. Publisert av: Erlend Solvberg, The diet solution that works!,Nutrition articles for extra help!
Posted on: Sun, 21 Sep 2014 23:49:41 +0000
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