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- Michelle Schoffro Cook
- October 25, 2012
- 5:11 pm
- 75 comments
It’s not difficult to eat healthier. Just making simple changes to your diet can ramp up the vitamins, minerals, and phytonutrients you’re getting. And better nutrition quickly spells better health. To make it easier for you, I’ve compiled 30 simple ways to supercharge your diet. Subscribe to my free e-mag World’s Healthiest News for more great ways to supercharge your diet.
1. Use avocado instead of butter on your sandwiches, buns, or on veggies.
2. Use naturally-sweet stevia instead of sugar. Be wary of powdered stevia that contain other sweeteners though. Stevia tastes sweet but doesn’t contain any form of sugar like glucose, fructose, maltose, etc. so it doesn’t impact blood sugar levels.
3. Drink green tea lemonade (sweetened with stevia, of course) instead of bottled ice tea or soda. Check out my recipe here.
4. Choose brown rice pasta instead of white pasta. Better yet, use kelp noodles if you can find them.
5. The same is true of rice. Choose brown rice instead of white rice.
6. Use stock instead of bouillon to make soup. It’s really easy to do if you add vegetables and water to a slow cooker and allow them to cook for at least 4 to 6 hours to extract the nutrients. Strain the vegetables out and use the liquid as the base for soup. Bouillon is notorious for containing the harmful neurotoxin monosodium glutamate (MSG).
7. Add a can of beans to a pot of homemade soup. It immediately ramps up the protein and fiber and helps you feel full longer so you’re less likely to crave unhealthy snacks.
8. Make your own salad dressings. They take a minute to make and help you obtain important fats. Use the 3:1 ratio: three parts oil (like olive or walnut oil) to one part acid (like lemon or lime juice, or apple cider vinegar). Add herbs and a little unrefined sea salt and maybe a teaspoon of honey (if desired). Shake in a jar or blend with a hand blender.
9. Switch from peanut butter to raw, organic almond butter. Peanuts are vulnerable to molds called aflatoxins which are highly inflammatory. Almonds are less vulnerable.
10. Eat kale chips instead of potato chips. You can purchase them ready-made or you can make your own by tossing kale in a little olive oil and unrefined sea salt, then bake at 275 until light and crispy (usually 15 to 25 minutes).
Keep reading to discover the food to eat instead of ice cream…
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Michelle Schoffro Cook
Michelle Schoffro Cook, MSc, RNCP, ROHP, DNM, PhD is an international best-selling and 14-time book author and doctor of traditional natural medicine, whose works include: 60 Seconds to Slim, Healing Recipes, The Vitality Diet, Allergy-Proof, Arthritis-Proof, Total Body Detox, The Life Force Diet, The Ultimate pH Solution, The 4-Week Ultimate Body Detox Plan, and The Phytozyme Cure. Check out her natural health resources and subscribe to her free e-magazine World's Healthiest News at WorldsHealthiestDiet.com to receive monthly health news, tips, recipes and more. Follow her on Twitter @mschoffrocook and Facebook.
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Good options. I always crave sugar. thanks
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Number 17. The bread must state on the label "100 percent"(the comment section doesn't allow the percent symbol for some reason) whole wheat or whole grain or whole whatever. If it simply say "whole grain" or "whole wheat" its not. Infact sometimes there is no whole wheat in it at all. They add molasses to give it a brown color to make it look whole wheaty.
Marketing, consumer beware. Read ingredient labels. I do it all the time. When it was first suggested to me, I thought like 98 percent of the folks "if it says it on the package, it must be true, they can't lie". They do! They CAN'T LIE on the INGREDIENT LABEL! That is the only part of the package, besides net weight, that is regulated.
Thanks for the info.
Are there any tips for students? I can't afford to try quite a few of these tips here. Either the foods are too expensive to be buys all the time, or the stores that sell them are too far away (I'd have to bus it out to them, and that trip is close to an hour each way).
Useful tips,good article,thanks.
Good tips, though the comments about electrolytes in coconut water (no. 11) have been debunked on another article on this site (http://www.care2.com/greenliving/which-health-drinks-are-actually-healthy.html?page=5)
I will give sweet potatoes a try though :)
I actually tried kale chips and they weren't bad. Like the tips.
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