And the winner for this week’s topic? Fruit! Who doesn’t like fruit? As we wind up healthy resolution January next week, let’s talk about one of the easiest ways to incorporate healthier food in your diet. Just add fruit!
Most of us like fruit and it’s an easy, portable snack to take on the go or have as a quick healthy snack at home. Fruits are a gift from nature with natural medicines than can enhance our lives. They come in so many colors and flavors the choices for a snack of fruit are endless!
Fruits are chocked full of vitamins, minerals, anti-oxidants and phytonutrients. Anti-oxidants and phytonutrients work within our bodies to curb free radicals and continue to keep our bodies disease free and healthy!
Besides their super healthy powers, fruits are low in calories and fats, nutrient dense and a great source of complex carbs. Fruits provide soluble fiber which helps to control cholesterol and excess fats from the body and keep you running regular! If you include fruit in your daily diet, you are protecting yourself from minor ailments like wrinkling of skin, hair loss, and memory loss to major ailments like age-related macular degeneration (AMRD) of the retina in the eyes, Alzheimer’s disease, colon cancers, weak bones (osteoporosis) the list goes on and on. Be sure to have at least four to five different fruits a day. A simple fruit salad is the easiest way to go. Pick your favorites and find a new one. Experiment every week by adding a new fruit. Your body will thank you with better health!
The simplest way to eat fruit is this, all cut up into a big bowl with nothing more than a spritz of fresh lemon or lime juice and perhaps a drizzle of honey. Yum. Get your fruit on this week.
http://www.nutrition-and-you.com/fruit-nutrition.html
http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/nutritionsource/what-should-you-eat/vegetables-and-fruits/
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This information is solely for informational purposes. IT IS NOT INTENDED TO PROVIDE MEDICAL ADVICE. Kim Gerhardt, Certified Health Coach, does not take responsibility for any possible consequences from any treatment, procedure, exercise, dietary modification, action or application of medication which results from reading or following the information contained in this information. The publication of this information does not constitute the practice of medicine, and this information does not replace the advice of your physician or other health care provider. Before undertaking any course of treatment, the reader must seek the advice of their physician or other health care provider.
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