Yeah, But I Already Eat Balanced Meals You may think that there is no need to eat differently because you are careful to eat balanced mealsmost of the timejust the way your mother taught you to eat. If you are like most of us, balanced means a variety of foods selected from the traditional Four Food Groups: meat, dairy products, refined grains and cereals, fruits, and vegetables. A balanced breakfast is cereal, milk, toast, butter, and coffee or bacon and eggs. Lunch is a ham and cheese sandwich on brown-colored white bread, and maybe an apple. Dinner is chicken, fish, or beef, potatoes, a half a cup of vegetables and sometimes a small salad. A little mid-afternoon snack: pop and chips or a tiny piece of chocolate. And, dessert, in moderation of course, is a few cookies and/or ice cream. A diet centered on meat, dairy products, white flour, white sugar, and refined cereals is not balanced. Quite the contrary, these are the very culprits that cause most of the ailments plaguing our country today. Think logically. What are the very best foods to put in your body? No matter how many differing opinions there are about food, there is no argument that fruits and vegetables are the most health-promoting and disease-preventing foods. Therefore, doesnt it make sense that it would be to your bodys advantage to fill up on the best-for-you foodsfruits and vegetables? Are you serious about balanced meals? Try lots of fresh fruit for breakfast, a very large, green-leafy, vegetable salad for lunch, and a vegetable salad and a variety of vegetables for dinner. And snacks: fruit and raw, unsalted nuts. Once you fill up on the good-for-you-foods, if you are still hungry, really hungry, then eat the other foods you were raised to love. Now that is more balanced. |
