Nutrition - Eating and Treating your Body Right

Foods to Eat To Lower Cholesterol
Elevated cholesterol levels can be caused by many factors. A high fat diet, high cholesterol diet, sedentary lifestyles, obesity, and genetic propensity are all contributory factors.

Eating Too Much and Doing Too Little
In most cases you don’t need a doctor, or a pill, or a piece of exercise equipment, or a television show, an infomercial, a website or any other scam to help you out of the self inflicted mess of being overweight. All you need to so is eat less and do more.
How to Ensure that you Eat Enough Fruit
A cup is defined as 1 cup of fresh fruit, ½ cup of dried fruit, or 1 glass of 100% fruit juice. It is important to recognise that this is 100% fruit juice not fruit juice concentrate or fruit juice mix. 100% fruit juice still contains many of the nutrients and is actual juice of the fruit.
Sugar versus artificial sweetener
Often considered to be evil, sugar actually plays a role in many processes of the body. Sugars are broken down into glucose, the simplest form of sugar in the body.
Eating what we Need Versus what we Think we Need
To ensure that you consume a balance of these fuel sources and nutrients it is recommended that all of your main meals should be based on the rule of ½ plate of fruit or vegetables (or salad), ¼ of your plate should be from a protein source (for example fish, lean white or red meat, eggs, lentils) and the remaining ¼ of your plate should be made up of wholegrain or low glycemic index carbohydrates.
The Importance of Healthy Snacking
If you are looking to incorporate healthy snack options into your diet look for snacks that are based on fruits, vegetables, reduced fat dairy products, nuts and seeds and wholegrain cereals.
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