Health Diet Tips
by emweje
Cook just what will be eaten. Get up early enough to eat breakfast at home. Stock up on easy breakfast foods. Instead of fighting your body's natural tendency to store up nutrition for the baby, eat healthy portions and increase your activity level. We are almost 60 per cent water, 23 per cent protein, 14 per cent fats and 3 per cent minerals. What should we be eating to maintain good health? We hear constantly that if we eat a balanced diet we will be fine. In the UK the Balance of Good Health uses a picture of a plate divided into five segments with foods grouped into: fruit and vegetables, bread and other cereals and potatoes; milk and dairy foods; fatty and sugary foods; meat, fish and alternatives. Later on we look at what foods should be eaten to maintain health. Eat 3-4 helpings of fresh green leafy vegetables per day, 2 servings of red-orange vegetables and 2 pieces of fresh fruit
Eat 30gms of fibre foods each day, this would come from the fruit, vegetables and wholegrain cereals or nuts and seeds.
Eat some complex carbohydrate foods daily such as cereals, root vegetables, or pulse vegetables (legumes) as this supplies slow-releasing sugars into the body to sustain energy levels
Eat 1 tablespoon of fresh cold pressed oils each day from sesame, sunflower, safflower, olive or eat seeds and nuts or use 1 tablespoon of ground linseeds with breakfast. Avoid trans fats.
Eat some 50-75gm of protein foods per day, choosing from a variety of sources so that we take in a wide range of amino acids e.g. pulse vegetables, grains, nuts and seeds, eggs, dairy foods (cow, goat and ewes) and fresh fish or lean organic meats.
