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Getting started on the path to healthy livingA modern lifestyle puts many of us at risk with regard to our health and even our chances of survival. The website www.obesitydiscussion.com provides some more healthy eating tips on how to increase your fruit and vegetable intake.
Top up your meals with fruit and vegetables
She suggests that we start the day with pure (100%) fruit or vegetable juice. Slice bananas or strawberries and add them to your morning cereal. Have a salad with lunch and nibble on some carrot sticks for an afternoon snack. Include a vegetable with dinner and you already have about five cups of fruit and vegetables.
Tired of your boring old salads? Try these tasty additions to add flavour to your salad:
- Green or red pepper strips, broccoli florets, carrot slices or cucumber will add crunch to your pasta or potato salad.
- Baby carrots, shredded cabbage or spinach leaves will add colour to a green salad.
- Apple chunks, pineapples and raisins perk up coleslaw, and chicken or tuna salads.
- Oranges, grapefruit or nectarine slices will add extra flavour to any salad.
- Fruit juice, flavoured vinegars or herbs will make low-fat salad dressings flavourful without adding fat or salt.
- Keep things fresh and interesting by combining fruit and vegetables of different flavours and colours, like red grapes with pineapple chunks, or cucumbers and red peppers.
Try also to include some fruit and vegetable servings when eating out at your favourite restaurant. Try some of these healthy choices:
- veggie pizza
- pasta with vegetables (but watch out for those high-fat cream sauces)
- fresh vegetable "wraps"
- vegetable soup
- a small salad (instead of fries)
- plenty of fresh vegetables from the salad bar
* Staff members who want to lose weight and/or want tips on healthy eating are invited to a weight loss class at 13:00 each Friday. The class will take place at the Unisa Clinic. For more information, please contact Sister Ntombi on 012 429 6629/8632. |
