Base your meals on starchy foods:
Starchy foods should make up around one third of the foods you eat. Starchy foods include potatoes, cereals, pasta, rice and bread. Choose wholegrain varieties (or eat potatoes with their skins on.
Starchy foods should make up around one third of the foods you eat. Starchy foods include potatoes, cereals, pasta, rice and bread. Choose wholegrain varieties (or eat potatoes with their skins on.
Eat lots of fruit and vegetable:
Why not chop a
banana over your breakfast cereal, or swap your usual mid-morning snack for
some dried fruit?
Eat more fish:
Fish is good in protein and has many vitamins and minerals. Oily fish is high in omega-3 fats, which may help to prevent heart disease.
Fish is good in protein and has many vitamins and minerals. Oily fish is high in omega-3 fats, which may help to prevent heart disease.
Cut down on saturated fat and sugar:
Cut down on sugary fizzy drinks, alcoholic drinks, cakes, biscuits and pastries, which contain added sugars:
Cut down on sugary fizzy drinks, alcoholic drinks, cakes, biscuits and pastries, which contain added sugars:
Eat less salt:
Eating too much salt can raise your blood pressure. People with high blood pressure are more likely to develop heart disease or have a stroke. Adults and children over 11 should eat no more than 6g of salt a day.
Eating too much salt can raise your blood pressure. People with high blood pressure are more likely to develop heart disease or have a stroke. Adults and children over 11 should eat no more than 6g of salt a day.
Get active and be a healthy weight:
Eating a healthy, balanced diet plays an essential role in maintaining a healthy weight, which is an important part of overall good health.
Eating a healthy, balanced diet plays an essential role in maintaining a healthy weight, which is an important part of overall good health.
Don't get thirsty:
We need to drink about 1.2 litres of fluid every day to stop us getting dehydrated.
We need to drink about 1.2 litres of fluid every day to stop us getting dehydrated.
Don’t skip breakfast:
A healthy breakfast is an important part of a balanced diet, and provides some of the vitamins and minerals we need for good health. Whole meal cereal, with fruit sliced over the top is a tasty and nutritious breakfast.
A healthy breakfast is an important part of a balanced diet, and provides some of the vitamins and minerals we need for good health. Whole meal cereal, with fruit sliced over the top is a tasty and nutritious breakfast.
Ah. A post my friends watching their health needs to read. Thanks!
ReplyDeleteYou are welcome, SuperLux.
DeleteI still skip breakfast :(
ReplyDeleteHave you got any reason why you do that? Policing your weight?
DeleteIf saying this makes me sound like a broken record, I will go ahead and say it for the sole purpose of proving a point. The importance of exercise and eating a healthy diet cannot be over emphasised, and that's what I keep telling people - your genes play an important role though..........
ReplyDeleteSure thing, dear...
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