Did you overdo it a little bit over the holidays? The guys here at ForMen sure did. It’s so hard to make healthy choices when there are so many tempting foods at the ready. Now here we sit, with our clothes feeling uncomfortably snug, looking for ideas on how to do it better the next time around. We found a great little read by Aaron Carroll over at the NY Times and have included a few of his ideas for you below.
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- Get as much of your nutrition as possible from a variety of completely unprocessed foods. These include fruits and vegetables. But they also include meat, fish, poultry and eggs that haven’t been processed. In other words, when buying food at the market, focus on things that have not been cooked, prepared or altered in any way. Brown rice over white rice. Whole grains over refined grains. You’re far better off eating two apples than drinking the same 27 grams of sugar in an eight-ounce glass of apple juice.
- When you do eat out, try to eat at restaurants that follow the same rules. Ideally, you should eat at restaurants that are creating all of their items from completely unprocessed foods. Lots and lots of restaurants do. Follow Rule 1 even while out to dinner. Some processing is going to be fine, but try to keep it to a minimum.
- Drink mostly water, but some alcohol, coffee and other beverages are fine. Carroll states, “As I’ve pointed out before, you can find a study to show that everything either prevents or causes cancer — alcohol and coffee included. But my take is that the preponderance of evidence supports the inclusion of a moderate consumption of most beverages.”
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- Treat all beverages with calories in them as you would alcohol. This includes every drink with calories, including milk. They’re fine in moderation, but keep them to a minimum. You can have them because you like them, but you shouldn’t consume them as if you need them.
- Eat with other people, especially people you care about, as often as possible. This has benefits even outside those of nutrition. It will make you more likely to cook. It will most likely make you eat more slowly. It will also make you happy.
We hope that you find these tips relatively easy to incorporate into your life. It certainly has given those of us at ForMen some great ideas about how to make some simple changes that could result in big payoffs. Happy eating!
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NY Times
