The Healthy Foods List for Eating Healthy 



You don’t need to get a degree in nutrition to know the best foods for healthy eating and to make sure you get your important daily nutrients. Here's your list of healthy foods for eating healthy every day.

* Healthy Vegetables: Choose most often from the vegetables list. Go mainly for the brightest colored veggies with the most vitamins, minerals and antioxidants. Focus on orange, red and dark green, like broccoli, kale, carrots, bell peppers, squash and tomatoes. Also use garlic and onions, which are great natural antibiotics that strengthen immunity and help prevent disease. 


* Nutritious Fresh Fruits: From the fruits list, enjoy colorful fresh, frozen and (in limited amounts) dried fruit. Choose berries, oranges, peaches, apples, plums, cantaloupe, red grapes and other fruit low on the glycemic foods index, rather than juices or canned fruit.

* Wholesome Whole Grains: Select brown rice, whole grain breads and pasta, oatmeal and other whole grain high fiber foods instead of refined grains, such as white bread and white rice. 



* Eggs and Low Fat Dairy: Choose only low-fat dairy products, such as fat free or low-fat milk, cheese and acidophilus yogurt. Limit your use of butter and eat no more than one egg a day. 


* Beans, Nuts and Seeds: Legumes and beans, like lentils, split peas, soy and kidney beans are good sources of both protein and fiber. Add to soups, salads and other dishes. Healthy nut and seed choices of are unsalted almonds, walnuts, and sunflower seeds. Nuts are high in calories, so keep portions small. 


* Essential Oils and Fats: Get high quality good fat and essential fatty acids from whole grains, olive oil, raw nuts and seeds, avocados and omega 3 fish. Use olive oil for salads, stir-frying and baking. To help with weight management, eat fats sparingly.

It's that simple! By focusing on choices from this list of healthy foods for healthy eating and eliminating the unhealthy foods to avoid and not to eat, you can have more energy, look younger and stay healthy and fit.
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The Importance of Healthy Eating 


Here are the three major dietary changes that have taken place:

1. More and more fat, sugar and salt started showing up in food.
2. People became more sedentary, requiring less and less calories.
3. And environmental toxins, food processing and additives increased.

The negative side effects of just these few lifestyle examples can help you better understand the importance of eating a healthy diet.

* Caffeine robs your body of B vitamins.
* One cigarette destroys 25 mg. Of vitamin C.
* Aspirin interferes with use of vitamin C and folic acid.
* Milk with synthetic vitamin D robs your body of magnesium.
* High glycemic foods destroy B vitamins that help reduce stress.
* Alcohol depletes your body of vitamins B1, B2, B6, B12 and folic acid, plus vitamins C and K, magnesium, zinc and potassium.
* Birth control pills interfere with vitamins C, B6, B12 and folic acid.
* Laxatives and mineral oils cause depletion of vitamins A, E and D.
* Many other over-the-counter remedies and prescription medications interfere with absorption and increase the excretion of nutrients.
10 foods you should eat:

1. Sweet potatoes. They're loaded with carotenoids, vitamin C, potassium, and fiber.

2. 100% whole grain bread contains many more vitamins and minerals than its white counterpart.

3. Broccoli comes packed with vitamin C, carotenoids and folic acid.

4. Watermelon makes an excellent source of vitamin C and carotenoids.

5. Beans win the inexpensive, low fat, high protein award. Plus they contain lots of iron, folic acid and fiber.

6. Cantaloupe supplies all the daily requirements of vitamin A and C in just a quarter slice.

7. Spinach and kale provide calcium, fiber, carotenoids, and vitamin C.

8. Oranges contain vitamin C, plus abundant folic acid, potassium and fiber.

9. Oatmeal provides soluble fiber that helps lower bad cholesterol while improving good cholesterol.

10. 1% milk ranks as an excellent source of protein, with little or no artery-clogging fat or cholesterol.
Thanks to neetu for sharing this information.now a days many are not taking care about Healthy Foods..
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