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Healthy eating patterns and a healthy daily lifestyle are the first steps for staying healthy and preventing health problems. Health troubles begin with more than just a single occurrence in life. Usually, it is a combination of things, some that an individual can control (diet and exercise) and some a person cannot (heredity, gender, age). However like everything in life if you adapt  an iron self-belief with an I CAN, I WILL, I DID belief then you WILL succeed.

For many of us, learning to develop healthy eating habits takes a little more discipline than it does for others. But by making small changes with every meal, you can start developing healthier eating habits in no time. Here are a few small steps that can lead to giant leaps for you and your family’s daily diet.

Start by changing the “snack ratio” in the house. Slowly and gradually have more fruit and healthier snack choices around, rather than the typical, higher-calorie junk food. Remove the saturated fatty snacks. For instance, have three types of fruit (apples, oranges, grapes) to replace some of the small bags of crisps or chocolate bars. Or simply start replacing unhealthy snacks with alternative choices, such as cereal bars, seeds, nuts and dried fruits.

When shopping at the super market, spend more of your time in the outer aisles. That’s where you’ll find the healthier foods, such as fresh fruits, fish and vegetables, which are naturally lower in fat and cholesterol and have not been filled with sugar, salt and other preservatives that add on the pounds.

Begin reading the labels of the foods that you eat. Foods that are labelled “low in fat,” or “light,” are not always the healthiest choice. Many times, if a product is lower in fat, it may be higher in sodium, salt or, if it’s lower in sugar, it may be high in fat. Start reading the “Nutrition Facts” chart on the back of the box, can or bag.

I will admit, it’s hard to read the label of every food item while you’re shopping. A better way to start is with your favourite packaged foods and snacks at home. Soon you’ll start to notice the differences in the amounts of carbohydrates, fats, sugar, additives and calories per serving between the different foods that you’ve chosen. The next step is to slowly begin making adjustments in your shopping choices, and to look for alternatives with fewer calories, saturated fats, additives, artificial preservatives etc.

“Everyone zeroes in on the calories,” says registered dietician Claire LeBrun. “I even catch myself sometimes doing it; you have to look at the portions and calories per serving size.” The gotcha that gets a lot of consumers with the nutritional facts charts is the number of calories per serving size. Most consumers read the number of calories and assume that’s the number of calories for the entire package, rather than the number of calories per serving — most packages give you the nutritional facts of 100 grammes of whatever you have selected -  buyer beware.

Develop a healthy habit of selecting sensible-sized food portions. If your plate has a serving of rice that can’t fit into the cupped palm of your hand, then, in most cases, the amount of food you’ve chosen is too much. Using this “cup of your hand” technique is a good way to mentally measure the amounts of foods that go onto your plate. Some people use the size of their fist as a measurement. The size of your fist, or a cupped hand, is about the same size of one measuring cup.

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