5 diet tips, plus exercise, to keep you alive
Categories: Fitness, Nutrition & Supplements

- Reduce your intake of dietary fat -- both saturated and unsaturated -- to a max level of 30 percent of total calories. You can accomplish this by limiting meats, trimming away its excess fat, avoiding fried foods, and cutting down on butter, creams, and salad dressings.
- Increase consumption of fresh fruits, vegetables, and whole-grain cereals. This will automatically increase your intake of these five nutrients: beta carotene, vitamin C, vitamin E, selenium, and dietary fiber.
- Only moderately consume salt-cured and charcoal-broiled foods, or ditch altogether.
- Only moderately consume alcoholic beverages, or ditch altogether.
- Eliminate from your diet these items: All salt except for what's found in food itself, all stimulants like coffee and tea, all refined sugar and flour, hydrogenated fats, pepper and other hot spices, foods containing artificial additives or preservatives, and all cured meats such as hot dogs.
Oh, there's one other thing you should be doing: Exercising. It does a body good.
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Yuri | EatingforEnergy.ca 9-23-2008 @ 8:55AM
Great tips Jacki.
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Let me know and I'll happily send you a copy.
Yuri
http://www.EatingforEnergy.ca
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Wendy 9-23-2008 @ 9:29AM
Who is this person? Where are you getting your facts? Eliminate tea, pepper, and hot spices? I can maybe understand coffee, even though a lot of newer studies are talking about the health benefits of a cup or two a day. And alcohol? A glass of wine a day is great for your heart! And no one can argue the health benefits of tea and some spices. Your information is inaccurate and irresponsible.
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marcie0305 9-23-2008 @ 10:34PM
How about recommending a switch to healthy fats - which are vital to many brain & body functions - instead of reducing fats altogether? We shouldn't put all fats in one bucket. I am also confused about eliminating "pepper and other hot spices" - Just one example of a post here on That's Fit that promotes pepper:
http://www.thatsfit.com/2008/08/12/black-pepper-is-a-natural-fat-burner/
Otherwise, good advice, to take things in moderation.
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