Tips to incorporate a healthy diet into your day-to-day life

Eating a healthy diet can be challenging!

We need to be organised and make the time to shop and prepare food, rather than choosing the convenience of junk food.

A healthy diet can improve your overall health and make you feel better in so many ways on both physical and mental level. it also provides so many long-term benefits.

- When we eat less fatty, sugary and process food and place them with nutrient dense foods such as fruit, vegetables and whole grains help us maintain a healthy weight.

- Eating a nutritious diet helps keep our immune system strong, making us less prone to everyday illness like cold, flus, viruses and also protect the body against different types of diseases.

- Healthy, nutritious food choices like fruit and vegetables, help keep our blood sugar and insulin levels steady and boost our energy levels.

- What we eat can have an impact on the part of the brain that regulates our mood. Food that remineralise the body and keep our blood sugar stable such as fruit and vegetables, have associated with helping lower depression. In addition to that, certain foods high in magnesium like leafy greens, avocados, bananas have the ability to slow the production of cortisol and fruits in general have the ability to heal out addrenal glands, regulating our stress hormones.

- Many studies have also shown reputedly that a diet that includes a variety of fruit and vegetables, in combination with exercise, were associated with extended life expectancy.

Healthy Eating Is A Lifestyle Choice Not Just A diet

Some tips to incorporate a healthy diet into your day-to-day life can include:

• Limiting processed foods, high-sugar foods, fried and fatty foods, sugary carbonated drinks and alcohol.

• Keeping a bottle of water with you all the time.

• Bringing a pre-prepared healthy lunch to work.

• Swap the chips, chocolate and cookie for veggie sticks, fruit, dates, smoothie or a handful of nuts or seeds.

• Limit caffeine where possible you can instead try having herbal teas.

It might take some time to get used to making healthier food choices, but after a few weeks you will start feel better, have more energy, your skin will look better and slowly the healthy options will come more naturally.