Give more importance to fruits - fruits contain vitamins, minerals, and fiber that are required to maintain a healthy weight. Eat all variety of fruits like fresh, frozen, canned, or dried, rather than fruit juice for most of your fruit choices.
Eat more vegetables
Eat more vegetables
- Dark green vegetables - Such as broccoli, kale, and other dark leafy greens contain lot of iron.
- Orange vegetables - such as carrots, sweet potatoes, pumpkin, and winter squash contain lot of beta-carotene and are tough free-radical fighter.
- Blue/purple vegetables - such as Blueberries, blackberries, beets, plums, red grapes and eggplant contain highest concentrations of antioxidants that are required for healthy skin.
Get half your grains whole - Have at least 3 ounces of whole-grain cereals, breads, crackers, rice, or pasta every day. One ounce is equal to 1 slice of bread, 1 cup of breakfast cereal, 1/2 cup of cooked rice or 1/2 cup of cooked pasta.
Go with proteins - The best way to go lean is with proteins. Vary your protein choices with more fish, beans, peas, nuts, and seeds rather than meat and poultry.
Take less amount of saturated fats - Try to avoid saturated fats because most fats come from saturated one, if you can't then take less than 10 percent of your calories from saturated fatty acids. When choosing the product, choose that are lean, low-fat, or fat-free.
Limit salt and sugar - Lessen the amount of salt and sugar that you use in your diet.
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