Healthy Eating
To Your Health
You may credit your grandfather for your cleft chin or your mom for your height, but your energy and good health are in your hands. Examine your goals for wellness. Most likely they include the following:
- Having the stamina to handle everyday stress
- Feeling and looking your best
- Being more productive
- Reducing your risk of chronic health issues such as heart disease, diabetes, osteoporosis and cancer
- Living longer and remaining independent
Your food choices combined with positive habits, such as getting regular moderate exercise and not smoking, can help you reach your healthful life plan.
That adage—you are what you eat—is true! Studies show you will reduce your risk of developing heart disease if you reduce your intake of saturated fat and cholesterol. Watching your caloric intake is beneficial as well. Being overweight is linked to type 2 diabetes, high blood pressure and certain cancers.
As you reduce your intake of high-fat, high-cholesterol foods, design a diet for your well-being. Nutrition experts advise consuming plenty of fruits, vegetables and other complex carbohydrates, such as pasta. You’ll enjoy satisfying and nutrient-rich meals designed for your good health.
Eating for good health
According to nutrition authorities, you’re not going to find a “magic bullet” in the supermarket that will improve your wellbeing and protect you from disease. That one super food doesn’t exist, and that’s a good thing!
By the same token, eliminating a food group from your meals isn’t necessary, and may, in fact, be harmful. Instead, vary your diet to include plenty of nutrient-rich fruits, vegetables, grains, seafood, meat and poultry. At the same time, reduce your intake of high-sugar, high-fat and high-cholesterol foods that don’t enhance your health.
Look to MyPyramid (http://www.mypyramid.gov), designed by the top health experts in the U.S., for customized suggestions to improve your nutrition. You’re probably aware that meat, beans, nuts, poultry, eggs and fish provide protein you need to build, repair and maintain your body. If you’re a woman, aim for 5 to 5½ ounces of meat foods daily; men can get 5½ to 6½ ounces. As an adult, include 3 cups of milk or the equivalent in cheese or yogurt daily to provide calcium and vitamin D for strong bones and potassium for healthy blood pressure.
Despite fruit’s tempting flavor, you may not be eating the recommended 1½ to 2 cups (for women) or 2 cups (for men). Fruit is rich in vitamin C, potassium, folate and dietary fiber. And maybe you weren’t a vegetable fan as a child., but don’t let that bias linger in adulthood. Men, aim for 2½ to 3 cups; women, get 2 to 2 ½ cups a day to get adequate potassium, vitamins A, C and E as well as dietary fiber.
Don’t skimp on grains either. Meals and snacks should add up to 5 to 6 ounces of grains a day if you’re a woman and from 6 to 8 ounces if you’re a man. Half your selections should be whole grains, such as breakfast oatmeal or brown rice. But you can still enjoy your favorite pasta and macaroni recipes using enriched refined grains, which are important sources of B vitamins, including folic acid and iron.
No Yolks matter
You know you’re getting rich, full flavor with No Yolks, but the nutritional package is just as important.
Nutrition experts recommend you limit your cholesterol intake to less than 300 milligrams a day to reduce your risk of heart disease. A serving of No Yolks contributes no cholesterol to your diet.
Note that No Yolks are also 99 percent fat free! Fat is a concentrated source of calories. Saturated fat is a special concern because like cholesterol, it may affect your heart health. It’s nice to know that No Yolks has no saturated fat and less than one gram of total fat.
Food, however, should be more than an absence of drawbacks. With No Yolks you get a wealth of nutritional advantages, including folic acid and iron – two especially important nutrients if you’re a woman in your childbearing years. Also, No Yolks has more than twice the dietary fiber of most refined wheat pasta products. Dietary fiber keeps your system regular, reduces your risk of heart disease and helps you feel full.
Another fat for concern
Trans fats are substances formed when liquid oil is hydrogenated. Unfortunately eating foods high in trans fats, can raise the level of LDL cholesterol in your body, which leads to dangerous cholesterol build-up. Health experts advise you limit your intake of foods that contain trans fats. No Yolks has none.
Say yes to complex carbohydrates
Your body needs complex carbohydrates, like those in No Yolks. Complex carbohydrates supply energy, especially for your brain and nervous system. The grains—complex carbohydrates—in No Yolks are enriched with the B vitamins thiamin, riboflavin, niacin and folic acid as well as the mineral iron. In addition, No Yolks delivers 3 grams of dietary fiber per 1½ cup serving (cooked). The dietary fiber in complex carbohydrates helps reduce your risk of heart disease and type 2 diabetes.
