Eat Healthy - Be Healthy

If it were only that simple. With all the advice you get on nutrition and how to eat properly it's no wonder that no one really knows what to do. You read and hear about diets, pills, potions, magic drinks with cayene in it, hell I think there is even an ice cream diet. Who is trying to confuse us? My guess - the people that make the most money off this. Jack LaLanne once said "If man made it - don't eat it" this is pretty basic but sound advice. I think that we all know how to eat properly but we really don't want to expend the energy to do it. Fast food, dunkin donuts, starbucks they are all here to sabotage us, right? Not really but it does make it difficult when we are on a time crunch and need something to eat, or how bout one of those coolatta type drinks with enough sugar to send you into a pre diabetic craze. So what should we do? Well to keep it simple start off with whole foods, plan and prepare all your meals, no boxed or prepared meals or side dishes. This isn't rocket science: eat plenty of fruits and vegetables (not all fruit), whole grains, nuts, seads, olives, avocados, beans, fish, chicken and meat (yes meat - lean meats like top loin and flank steak).

remember real food grows and dies. If its made in a factory or has been processed DON"T EAT IT.

Plan your weekly meals, make them ahead, you know what to eat and don't get side tracked by one of the many articles that you will see this week and every week in the newspaper, online, on tv in an infomercial, from your best friend etc etc etc.

WARNING: this is a simple model and does not go into micro and macro nutirents, you know protein, fat, carbs.... on purpose, this is a good way for most people to start.