01/07/2020
🍅 HEALTHY EATING FOR AN ACTIVE LIFESTYLE 🍅
✅ Tips for combining good nutrition and physical activity. For youth and adults engaging in physical activity and sports, healthy eating is essential for optimizing performance.
✅Combining good nutrition with physical activity can lead to a healthier lifestyle.
♻️ Eating a healthy diet is not about strict limitations, staying unrealistically thin, or depriving yourself of the foods you love. Rather, it’s about feeling great, having more energy, improving your health, and boosting your mood.
♻️ Healthy eating doesn’t have to be overly complicated. If you feel overwhelmed by all the conflicting nutrition and diet advice out there, you’re not alone. It seems that for every expert who tells you a certain food is good for you, you’ll find another saying exactly the opposite.
♻️ The truth is that while some specific foods or nutrients have been shown to have a beneficial effect on mood, it’s your overall dietary pattern that is most important. The cornerstone of a healthy diet should be to replace processed food with real food whenever possible.
♻️ Eating food that is as close as possible to the way nature made it can make a huge difference to the way you think, look, and feel.
♻️ Fruit and vegetables are low in calories and nutrient dense, which means they are packed with vitamins, minerals, antioxidants, and fiber.
♻️ Focus on eating the recommended daily amount of at least five servings of fruit and vegetables and it will naturally fill you up and help you cut back on unhealthy foods.
♻️ A serving is half a cup of raw fruit or veg or a small apple or banana, for example. Most of us need to double the amount we currently eat.
🎋To increase your intake:
✅ Add antioxidant-rich berries to your favorite breakfast cereal.
✅Eat a medley of sweet fruit—oranges, mangos, pineapple, grapes—for dessert.
✅Swap your usual rice or pasta side dish for a colorful salad.
✅Instead of eating processed snack foods, snack on vegetables such as carrots, snow peas, or cherry tomatoes along with a spicy hummus dip or peanut butter.