10 Tips to live a better life

Life is full of choices and each person has the responsibility to make the right choices. You cannot make the right choices if you are not informed and do not have any knowledge about the certain situation. Our first responsibility therefor is to acquire the necessary knowledge. Here follows 10 tips or guidelines to help you make the right choices concerning eating habits. These are general healthy eating and disease prevention guidelines that everybody needs to apply in their daily living.

1. Balance your calorie intake and your physical activity to achieve and maintain your healthy body weight. Each person’s healthy body weight differs from the next one. Find out what your healthy body weight is and make a goal to reach and maintain your healthy body weight this year. You should watch portion sizes and rather eat fresh and wholesome foods, while limiting snacking. Aim for at least 30 minutes of physical activity per day for most days of the week.
2. Consume a diet that is rich in vegetables and fruits, with five or more servings per day. If you can get hold of organically grown produce it will be so much better. Add to that dry beans, peas, lentils and soy.
3. Choose whole grain and high fibre foods. Fibre is very important for cleansing the colon. Examples are wholemeal bread, rolled oats, barley, brown rice and popcorn.
4. You should aim to eat oily fish at least twice a week. Choose salmon, pilchards, sardines, trout or herring.
5. Limit your consumption of foods rich in saturated fats, trans-fatty acids and cholesterol. You should include unsaturated fats in your diet. Plant oils like olive oil, flaxseed oil, grape seed oil and canola are examples. Make sure to choose cold pressed oils when you shop.
6. Your should limit your intake of food and beverages with added sugar or try to avoid it altogether.
7. You should not completely cut out salt, but you should limit it. When you do use salt make sure it is pure sea salt.
8. Consume alcohol in moderation. Drink 6 – 8 glasses of clean, filtered water every day.
9. You should include a variety of foods in your diet to improve overall nutrition. It also makes dieting more interesting and fun.
10. Take time to prepare your food with care and take time to sit down and enjoy your food. It is much better than to just grab something on the go.

If you follow these 10 guidelines for at least a month, you will start loosing weight, you will look and feel better and leaner, you will have more energy and you will be more positive about life in general. If you can make each of these guidelines a habit, you can also change it into a lifestyle. Following these guidelines will prevent many diseases and health conditions that could potentially make you life miserable.