3 Easy Ways to Eat and Feel Healthier

By Catherine Guthrie, Experience Life

Good food, like timeless fashion, needn’t be complicated. The secret to eating well with minimal effort is to base your diet on simple, whole foods that contain a wide variety of nutrients — and a satisfying range of flavors and textures.

The synergy of nutrients packaged in a single whole food far surpasses anything a single nutrient can offer, says Hana Abdulaziz Feeney, MS, RD, a nutrition counselor at the University of Arizona in Tucson. “If you think one antioxidant is important, think of the hundreds of antioxidants in something as simple as beans. Add in the fiber, and you’ve far exceeded anything you can expect from almost any other food.”

And so it is that by making just three simple food shifts — eating beans more often, emphasizing more healthy fats, and limiting your intake of refined grains in favor of other healthy, complex carbs — you can enjoy an astonishingly wide and powerful range of health benefits. And they can help you drop excess weight, too.

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Heidi A.

12:56AM PDT on May 26, 2012

Very good and intelligently written article. Thanks for sharing.

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Yulan L.

12:34AM PDT on May 26, 2012

Great article, thanks.

Karen R.

10:45AM PDT on May 11, 2012

you are so right, Heather G.!

Lena K.

2:05AM PDT on Apr 4, 2012

thank you!

R Anna B.

1:57AM PST on Feb 29, 2012

Many thanks. Eat slowly and stop as soon as you feel it's enough. We tend to go beyond that threshold.

Melinda offline K.

6:55PM PST on Jan 2, 2012

Thanks for the good diet info

DobieMax W.

7:33AM PDT on May 6, 2011

Noted

Nita O.

3:35AM PDT on Apr 11, 2011

Thanks

Samantha H.

6:54AM PDT on Apr 10, 2011

thanks!

Melanie C.

11:52AM PDT on Mar 21, 2011

I knew a few of these things, as have just found out that I can't eat any foods with gluten in them. Since I stopped eating a lot of these foods, my stomach has gone down a lot. I'm not longer bloated, and I have actually lost a lot of weight. Thanks! I enjoyed reading and finding out more info.