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Article #533: Eating A Healthy Diet

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What is eating a healthy diet? A healthy excellent donut bakery shop. These donuts
diet should include eating a variety of are fresh out of the oven by 5:30 a.m.
foods from the basic food groups. The and I want to tell you these things are
basic food groups are: absolutely delicious. The baker is one
Â- Protein (meat, eggs, legumes) man who says he will take his recipe to
Â- Dairy Products the grave, will not even leave it behind
Â- Fruits and Vegetables for his only daughter, not that I wanted
Â- Grains (breads and pasta) the recipe or anything. I was content
Â- Fats and Sweets filling the donuts, stacking them in the
It is more difficult than you realize to shelf, sneaking bites here and there. And
actually eat a healthy diet. You might the real treat was it was Saturday, the
end up eating a whole lot of your shop was closed on Sunday. Whatever was
favorite foods and not enough from one of leftover this day we could all take home
the other groups just because you don't at closing. I took 100's of donuts home
like that particular group of food. You that year.
might be pressed for time almost all the I worked for this donut shop about one
time and you are forced to opt for year, and had so much fun getting fat and
convenience over quality when you get eating all those forbidden donuts.
hungry. It was fun while it lasted, but all good
You need do some planning in order to things seem to have to come to an end
really maintain a healthy eating pattern. quicker than you want them to.
It takes effort to eat the recommended From the time this donut shop opened in
daily allowances from each food group. my area when I was around 20 years old I
You will need to look closely at what you wanted to work there. I never really
are eating now and then make plans to could work in this little donut shop
implement healthier eating habits. because I always had so much better
Keeping a food diary of everything you paying and nicer jobs. There came a day,
eat and drink for one week should be however, when I transferred into the same
sufficient enough to tell you if you are town where this little donut shop was and
on the right track or if you need to make it was easier for me to at least work
some changes. part-time there.
For example, add a yogurt as a snack if It was a Saturday morning job. I did not
you find you are not meeting your daily mind getting up at 3:00 a.m. to be there
requirement for milk servings. Add some by 5:00 a.m. on Saturday morning because
strawberries or other berries (berry I knew first thing I was going to make
fruit is better because they contain more the coffee and start sampling those
antioxidants) to your cereal to obtain an delicious donuts. It was a very personal
extra serving of fruit. An 8 ounce glass treat and reward for me for about a year.
of orange juice everyday can serve as I only earned about $50 on this day. The
another serving. An 8 ounce glass of treat was seeing how those donuts were
cranberry juice everyday can serve as prepared "in person" and getting to
another serving. I can't stand tomato sample all of them. Boy did I have a good
juice, but if you can stand it, a small time in that job! I still want to go back
can of tomato juice serves as one to that Saturday morning job. I just
vegetable serving. If you are pressed for still have other things more interesting
time, adding these quick and easy items to do and Lord knows at age 50 now I
to your daily routine can help you meet don't need the extra fat, sugar and
the daily requirements for each food calories.
group. It would be too much of a temptation to
The new dietary guidelines recommend 2 overeat again and probably really get
cups of fruit and 2 and /2 cups of myself in trouble. I did end up with
vegetables per day. You ought to be able teeth that hurt more during that year I
to meet that requirement fairly easily. worked and ate at the Donut shop! I told
Set a weekly goal for yourself and my dentist, well the reason might just be
continue to maintain your food diary. this donut shop I been working at every
Weekly goals could be as simple as to Saturday.......Food is one of life's
order a salad for lunch instead of your great pleasures.
regular French fries, or to bring a In conclusion here, you can make simple
favorite flavor of yogurt to work every enough changes to your daily diet to meet
day. the requirements for a healthy eating
Once you begin to really think about your pattern. That donut shop had the biggest,
diet, keep the diary, make changes where roundest, cinnamon rolls I ever
necessary it begins to get easier to meet saw.............and blueberry cake donuts
the new daily recommended requirements just would melt in your mouth.........
for a healthy diet. Anyway, I am really on a personal journey
A special note for those of us who have a now to turn myself around and eat
sweet tooth is just simply limit how healthier. You can do it too!
often you eat those "forbidden" types of This article is FREE to publish with the
food. resource box.
I live in an area where there is an






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