| Healthy Living is the number one goal among North | | | | whole wheat flour and brown sugar or honey. |
| Americans. However, 80% of the population do not | | | | 14. Another healthy choice is to chew your food |
| know that cooking healthy, eating healthy foods such | | | | carefully and slowly, especially if it is the starchy kind, |
| as fruits and vegetables, and making healthy choices | | | | so that it may be properly mixed with saliva, otherwise |
| can mean the difference between life and death. I | | | | starch will be waiting for digestion for several hours. |
| have written this health and fitness article so that | | | | 15. Toasted bread is better than fresh. Do not eat it |
| people can make healthy choices for their own | | | | with liquid. Drink before eating the bread, as starch |
| personal health care and well being. | | | | should be converted into glucose by saliva. |
| Here are 25 ways to eat and drink healthy: | | | | 16. Eat only one starch to a meal. For instance, if you |
| 1. Do not drink iced water, especially not with meals. | | | | have rice then omit potatoes, bread, macaroni starchy |
| This interferes with flow of your digestive juices and | | | | pudding and so on. |
| impairs digestion. | | | | 17. If you suffer from gas, it is advisable to plan your |
| 2. Drink a cup of fresh pure water, at room | | | | meals so that you do not eat protein and starch |
| temperature, the first thing in the morning and last thing | | | | together; and especially not with cooked sulphur foods |
| at night. You should drink it hot only when you are | | | | like green peas, cabbage, broccoli, eggs, turnips, and so |
| constipated. In that case, a little lime or lemon may be | | | | on because gas is produced by sulphur working on the |
| added. | | | | starch. |
| 3. Drink six to eight glasses of water every day, | | | | 18. Do not throw away the water in which vegetables |
| approximately one glass for every fourteen pounds of | | | | have been boiled but use it for gravies, soup or for |
| your body weight. Drink mineral water to be on safe | | | | drinking. Potato water is excellent as it alkalizes the |
| side. | | | | body. |
| 4. Do not drink water with your meals, but drink it half | | | | 19. Fried greasy foods as well as rich dishes should be |
| hour before or two to three hours after your meals so | | | | avoided altogether, because these digest more slowly |
| as not to disturb the process of your digestion by | | | | than fat itself. Fat is the last to leave your stomach, |
| diluting the digestive juices. | | | | carbohydrates is first and then proteins. |
| 5. Sip the water slowly, never swig it down at once. | | | | 20. All saturated fats, such as lard, butter, margarine, |
| 6. In order to restore life elements of the water lost in | | | | eggs, and dairy products will increase the blood |
| boiling or processing, pass it through the air, pouring it | | | | cholesterol level and can be classified as unessential |
| from one cup to another. You will soon notice that this | | | | fats. |
| gives a slightly invigorating and stimulating effect, which | | | | 21. Any diet which is high in saturated fat is dangerous. |
| is absent in dead and devitalized water. | | | | So you should eat a balanced meal, a high fat and low |
| 7. It is better that you eat fresh fruits and vegetables | | | | protein diet inhibits the function of enzymes. |
| than to drink fruit or vegetable juices. | | | | 22. Remember, it is not only the calories and amount |
| 8. Do not keep juices standing, as they will lose their | | | | of fat that decide the nutrition and health, but the quality |
| precious enzymes. Apple juice for instance loses one | | | | of fat. Bacon, for instance has caloric fat value only. It |
| third of them after 30 minutes and all of them after | | | | contains nothing else, neither vitamins, nor minerals. |
| two hours. | | | | 23. Six cups of fresh raw cabbage juice a day keep |
| 9. Coffee, tea, alcohol and chocolate are not | | | | peptic ulcers away. |
| recommended because tannic acid, theine, caffeine | | | | 24. The richest source of protein is soya bean. Two |
| and theobromine are stimulants. | | | | pounds of soya been flour contain as much protein as |
| 10. Milk is really a food, not a drink. You should have it in | | | | five pounds of cheese, five pounds of boneless meat |
| small sips. Otherwise, it will likely produce indigestion. | | | | or six dozen eggs or 10 liters of milk. Soya bean is the |
| 11. It is not the amount of food you consume that | | | | only non-acid forming protein. |
| nourishes your body, but only the amount the body | | | | 25. The most essential rule about food, however, has |
| itself can assimilate. | | | | nothing to do with quality, quantity or preparation, but |
| 12. Choose carefully the foods that fit your system, | | | | with your mental attitude at the time you are eating it. |
| choose them just as carefully as you choose a shirt, a | | | | I hope that you will use this health and wellness article |
| hat or a tie. You have to try different food | | | | to make healthy choices when you start your person |
| combinations until you figure out which health food suit | | | | health care program. If you have any health questions |
| you best. Make health choices such as steam fresh | | | | or comments be sure to check out our Health Fitness |
| vegetables. | | | | Site for more health and fitness articles. |
| 13. Avoid all devitalized foods like canned food, polished | | | | Eat, drink and be healthy. |
| rice, white flour and white sugar. Use unpolished rice, | | | | |