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10 Health Tips for the Week

*  These tips are general guidelines of healthy eating.  We are neither dieticians nor nutritionists.  All of this information can be found in medical and sports nutrition journals.

1.      Color.  Your plate should have color to it.  For example, if I am eating some roasted chicken and a baked potato, the plate will look pretty bland…add a side salad, maybe a full slice of fresh tomato, some cooked baby carrots, and now we are talkin’.

2.      You cannot eat enough fresh fruit and vegetables.  Simply not possible.  Snacking on such foods while you cook meals will decrease your appetite for a huge, heavy meal.

3.      Eat foods that are fresh, not processed or preserved.

4.      Drinking one full glass of water before you eat a meal will work wonders.  You won’t be as hungry and your digestive track will thank you.

5.      Graduate to whole wheat, always.

6.      If you have an addiction, try these substitutes…chocolate, eat dark chocolate…alcohol, drink one glass of red wine…cigarettes, slap yourself in the face, which is what we want to do to you when you smoke.

7.      Add more fish and poultry to your diet.  Turkey is not reserved solely for Thanksgiving (the gravy can wait another year, however).

8.      Eat breakfast.  Need help?—buy a six pack of yogurt and a box of granola.  Marry the two in matrimonial bliss and you will be a breakfast lover for life.

9.      Eat slowly.  Enjoy your food.

10.   Do not wait until you are hungry to eat.  Always have some peanuts or dried fruit handy.

Staff’s Favorite Snacks

1.      Oven-roasted sweet potato fries

2.      Wilted spinach with cooked pine nuts

3.      Hard-boiled eggs, no yolk

4.      Cut apples with nut butter

5.      Cooked broccoli