Five Easy Steps For a Healthy Diet
I watched Dr. Lisa Hark’s advice on YouTube today.
She is a registerd dietician and offers the following advice about a healthy diet (with some extra comments by me):
- Exercise regularly. Aim to do 30 minutes of moderate activity at least three days a week. If you prefer you could split the 30 minutes into 3 lots of 10 minutes. Make exercise part of your daily routine by walking the dog or walking to the shops.
- Watch for hidden sugar in drinks. Water has no calories. Neither has black tea or coffee. However, if you add milk to tea and coffee make sure it is skimmed milk which has less fat and do not add sugar.
- Eat three portions of fruit and three portions of vegetables a day. Filling up on fruit and vegetables is much better than eating biscuits, cakes and other high fat, high calorie snacks. This is good health advice as well as a good dieting tip.
- Eat lean meats, poultry and fish. They are low in fat but be careful about how you cook them. Do not add extra fat during the cooking process. Steaming, poaching, boiling, grilling, baking and microwaving are the best ways of cooking meat to keep the fat value and calories down.
- Limit alcohol consumption. Alcohol is high in calories and has no nutritious value. Scientific research has shown that drinking red wine regularly is good for the heart but other research has linked alcohol consumption to breast cancer so while trying to lose weight it is probably a good idea to cut down on the alcohol.
I think these are very good tips. I must find the motivation to exercise more!
June 18, 2009 2:30 pm 
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outdoorgriller, June 20, 2009 @ 7:46 pm
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Sliloh, June 21, 2009 @ 8:10 pm
Oh exercise, the bane of my existence
Good video and tips!
Anita
Bean Fairbanks, June 21, 2009 @ 9:47 pm
Very sound advice but that is what we need sometimes. Being healthy doesn’t have to involve elaborate schemes for most of us. It involves common sense and making informed choices.
Jan, June 24, 2009 @ 10:28 pm
I agree, Bean. Being healthy is not complicated. It just means getting back to the basics and re-training those bad habits. No need for complicated diet plans or pills.