Nutrition/Heart Health
A Special Advertising Section March 23, 2017
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Recharge this month toward your flavorful goal of living healthy
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nstead of aggressive weight loss goals and dietary overhauls like you may have attempted in January, take a different approach, as we begin to spring forward now that it’s March, also known these days as National Nutrition Month. Rededicate yourself to a healthy lifestyle this year by incorporating some doable changes to your daily routines. The benefits will be worth it. Read on for some advice from the experts. Try out these tips or modify them to the best of your abilities and resources. Use smaller plates. “Use your salad plates instead of your dinner plates and you’ll be surprised how much less food you eat overall,” suggests Frances Largeman-Roth, RDN, nutrition expert and author of “Eating in Color.” If you’re craving something sweet, try putting your dessert in a ramekin, which can give the illusion of a bigger treat thanks to its compact size.
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Make today oil free. “Oil is a processed food that is pure fat containing upwards of 2,000 calories per cup,” states Julieanna Hever, MS, RD, CPT, a plant-based dietitian and author of “The Vegiterranean Diet” and “The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Plant-Based Nutrition.” “Substituting vegetable broth or water when sautéing and whipping up a tahini-based dressing for your salad or sauce for your food can save your hundreds and hundreds of calories in a day,” she suggests. Take 10 minutes to purge. Your kitchen we mean, not your body. It’s like the joy of tidying up, but for your waistline. “Get a trash bag, go through your fridge and pantry, and
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throw out all of the expired food and junk food you know is not good for your health! If it’s not in the house, you won’t eat it,” says celebrity nutritionist Lisa DeFazio, MS, RDN. Load up on protein. “Challenge yourself to eat three meals per day balanced with lean adequate protein, complex carbs, and healthy fats, along with two protein snacks (for women) or three protein snacks (for men),” says Caroline Cederquist M.D., author of “The MD Factor” and founder of bistroMD, a research-based diet delivery program. “For a woman of average height, which in the United States is 5’4”, I recommend Continued on page S-3
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