Healthy Eating Guidelines

Tips on Choosing A Healthy Eating Diet Plan
To Keep You Looking Younger and Fitter...

I would like to go over some healthy eating guidelines on this page as I believe that eating healthy is the core of any anti aging regime. We should all have a healthy eating diet plan in mind as food has a significant impact on not only on the way we look size wise, but how our skin looks, how confident we feel as a person and how we feel in general.

For example, I think that food is likely to be the answer to many of our problems. Are you feeling tired? Irritable? Run-down? Then it's likely that you're not getting the right types of food on a regular basis.

Food is the fuel which makes us function, much like petrol/gas which makes our cars run. But if you put diesel in a petrol-running car, it won't go and will damage the engine.

So why put unhealthy food into our bodies? Eating burgers, chips and chocolate won't make us full of energy, won't help us stop being irritable, won't help in achieving a slender figure and won't help in the fight against wrinkles and sagging skin!

Healthy Eating and Losing Weight

If you actually eat certain types of food they will not only help you lose weight (if you need to) but will give you energy, stop you from feeling tired, bloated and lethargic. Also when you eat unhealthily you can be at risk of nutrition-related diseases such as diabetes, heart disease and cancer.

So if you are overweight and start eating a healthy diet plan, you won't be able to help but lose weight. Those additional pounds will drop off automatically whilst eating plenty of fruit, vegetables and protein. Go here fore more advice on eating healthy to lose weight.

What Is Healthy Eating?

What we need to realize is that food is our friend, not our enemy. The more food we eat in the right quantity and type, will actually do you much more good than depriving yourself of food in the first place or eating unhealthy food.

A healthy eating plan is all about making the right choices, choosing foods for you which will serve you good. Eating healthy is not difficult, you just have to have a common-sense approach to food and making the right healthy choices over and over again which will eventually become a form of habit in time.

Here are some healthy eating guidelines when choosing between the following foods:

Rich in fruits and vegetables;
Bread, pasta, rice, potatoes;
Moderates amount of milk and dairy foods;
Protein such as meat, poultry, eggs, beans;
Limited foods which are high in fats and sugars.

You must consume a wide variety of the above in order to get your daily essential nutrients and vitamins. Look at this healthy eating chart for guidance:

Healthy Food Guidelines

General Guidelines

33% Fruit & vegetables

33% Whole Grains & Cereals

15% Low Fat Dairy

12% Nuts/Seeds, Olive Oil,
Fish, Eggs & Poultry

7% Red meat, fats, sugars,
white bread, pastries

In addition to the above:

Drink about 2 litres of water a day;
Limited coffee and tea (caffeine);
Limited alcohol;
Limit salt to under 6g a day.

If you can follow these general healthy eating guidelines on a daily basis, then you will be following a healthy diet which you will feel much better for and will lose any excess weight over time.

However, if you are serious about losing weight and eating healthy specifically for anti aging purposes, then you can take this a step further. Learn about eating mainly a raw food diet for optimal health, weight loss, vitality and aging rejuvenation.