Eat smart

Healthy eating is all about choices. You can still enjoy your favourite foods, but grill instead of frying, switch full fat ingredients for low fat.

These pages will give you hints and tips on how to eat well and to use food as a tool to help you maintain good health. Just follow the links to the right...

Five reasons to eat healthy

Energy

When you eat a balanced diet, your body uses the food efficiently as fuel. Foods high in fiber and complex carbohydrates

Complex carbohydrates

found in whole grains and vegetables are preferred over those found in starch-heavy foods, such as pastas, white-flour products, and potatoes. Most complex carbohydrates are high in fiber, which is important for health. get digested slowly and give you a constant supply of fuel, avoiding the constant highs and lows from sugary food.

Feel good

Diets high in sugar, fat and caffeine lead to stomach upset, feeling bloated and headaches. Eating foods that are balanced and high in fiber means that you body gets all the nutrients that it needs to function well. You wake up feeling great and full of energy for the rest of the day

Look Good

Apart from being a healthy weight, good nutrition gives you skin a better chance at staving off the signs of aging. A good skin care regime can only go so far, by supplying your body with the essential vitamins and minerals it needs to maintain itself, you skin will look younger and clearer for longer

Avoid Disease

Poor diet leads to many illnesses and diseases, such as cardiovascular disease, strokes and diabetes

Type 2 diabetes

develops when the body can still make some insulin, but not enough, or when the insulin that is produced does not work properly (known as insulin resistance). In most cases this is linked with being overweight..

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