Healthy Eating Tips
One of the motivations for this site was to give clear and reliable healthy eating tips. It’s for that reason that the topic of healthy eating is covered more extensively than any other.
Knowing how to eat healthy is more difficult than many realise, until they try it!
The truth is, in my experience, many people greatly over-estimate the extent of their healthy eating.
I always try to put a personal as well as a practical spin on my healthy eating tips. They are all below.
However, I’ve shortlisted three of the more popular articles…
Did you know that we eat in response to cues that are either internal or external? Internal cues are the natural feelings of hunger, for example stomach gurgling, or physical weakness. In this case, the desire for food comes from our stomach not our head!
External cues, on the other hand, can powerfully stimulate our urge to eat, whether we are physically hungry or not. Many who experience weight problems, fail to respond to their internal cues, but are driven in response to external cues.
A few examples of external cues:
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Do you sometimes dread eating out, expecting that it will ruin your dieting progress? Or maybe it incurs feelings of guilt, when you think about what you’ve eaten. Well, it doesn’t have to be that way! Here are a few tips on how to make the best choices from the menu – and still have fun.
For some, eating out is quite rare, being restricted to a few occasions each year, such as birthdays or Christmas. In this instance, what you eat isn’t such a big deal. However, many people find that when they add up all of their business lunches, parties and restaurant visits, they are eating out almost as often as they eat at home. If this is the case, then it’s important to pick more carefully from the menu.
Making healthy food choices requires:
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Following on with my current series on vegetarian nutrition, I wanted to look at a very important vitamin, especially for vegans – B12.
Why is B12 important for vegans?
Vitamin B12 is only found in animal products, therefore in theory, those following a strict vegan diet could be at risk of developing a B12 deficiency. B12 deficiency can lead to pernicious anaemia and severe, irreversible nerve damage, therefore it’s very important that you make sure you’re getting enough into your diet.
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Note: If you don’t find what you’re looking for here, I’ve another 25 Healthy Snack Ideas for you to enjoy, as well as 10 Easy Snacks and 20 more Healthy Snack Ideas.
For some, eating regularly can prove to be the key factor in keeping feelings of hunger at bay. Depending on your choice, snacking can also be a very valuable means of getting extra nutrients into your daily diet.
Here are a few great snack ideas based on their calorie content:
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Goji Berries
At last some good news on the nutritional labeling front! From Sunday 1st July 2007, all products making a claim, such as “superfoods,” “good for heart,” or “helps lower cholesterol,” will be banned under new EU rules, unless the claim is relevant and authorised. Spokeswomen from the Food Standards Agency points out, “This way the consumer knows why this food is healthy.”
Another great aspect of this new legislation is that nutritional claims, such as “low in salt,” or “light” will have to meet a set definition, which has been agreed by the EU. If a food states that it is “low in salt,’”but is also high in fat, for example, they will have to make this fact clear on the label as well.
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