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NUTRITION
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Eat Foods From All Food Groups EACH DAY |
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Grains: Make at least half of your grains each day whole grains.
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Vegetables: Vary your vegetables, emphasizing types coloful-dark green and/ or orange in color.
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Fruits: Eat a variety of frozen, or canned fruit (not in syrup); drink fruit juice in moderation.
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Milk Products: Pick fat-free or low-fat milk products.
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Meat & Beans: For protein, choose lean meat, poultry without skin, fish, nuts,dried, peas,and beans.
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Maintaining a healthy weight contributes to good overall health, lowers yours chance of heart disease and some cancers, and helps to keep your energetic.
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LIMIT SATURATED FAT, TRANS FATS, AND CHOLESTEROL |
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Keep eggs and organ meats to a minimum (such as Liver,Chitterlings,Giblets,Hog Maw,Tripe)
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Reduce your intake of butter,cream,margarine,shortening,coconut oil,plam oil, and foods made from such products.
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Trim excess fat off meat. Broil, bake, or broil rather than fry.
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Try to avoid products containing partially hydrogenated oils.
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Eat FOODS WITH ADEQUATE FIBER |
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Goods sources include fruits, vegetables, whole-grain, products, nuts, beans, and peas.
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Cut down on candy, ice cream, soda, cookies, and cake.
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Use caution with honey, brown sugar, raw sugar, and maple syrup. while more "natural" than white table sugar, they are still sugar.
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Check foods lable for sugar names, such as sucrose, glucose, dextrose. lactose, or fructose.
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Avoid TOO MUCH SALT (SODIUM) |
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Add salt only if called for in the recipe
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Remove the salt shaker from the dinner table.
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Drink ALCOHOL IN MODERATION |
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ALCOHOL is a risk factor in several cancers. as well as in many other serious conditions, including heart disease, ulcers and liver disorders. Limit yourself two drinks a day or less.
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