What’re the best foods to eat on a diet?
What foods work well with losing weight?
Vegetables, that’s what! – the more the merrier.
When you finally get going on your diet, you’ll probably have a list of foods specific to your personal diet needs. However, that may not happen in your case.
This article is not about choosing your diet. Everyone has to make that decision. As soon as you decide to go on a diet, you have to decide: which diet?
That’s a personal choice that I’m not discussing now. What I’m discussing is foods that will work well for losing weight – generic diet foods.
Whatever diet you are on, a good guideline is this: Eat vegetables throughout your day.
When you first begin your diet, choose three non-starchy vegetables each day. Later on, work yourself up to five. Finally, make seven vegetables each day your new habit.
Begin with some vegetables at breakfast. A good example is scrambling veggies in your eggs: peppers, onions, mushrooms, tomatoes, for example.
At lunch, enjoy a large salad or vegetable soup.
Good snacks include hummus with your cucumber slices and bell pepper slices.
Carrots sticks and celery slices are easy at snacks and meals.
Fresh veggies are best, but you may use frozen if that’s what’s available.
Vegetables listed below should be good on most any weight-loss diet. You may find a few on this list that won’t work for you. Veggies to avoid are those served creamed, or with a cheese sauce. Breaded vegetables are not a good option. Anything in a creamy dressing is a bad choice. This also includes fried vegetables.
Overall, this list should be adaptable to your needs:
alfalfa sprouts, artichokes, asparagus, arugula
beets, bok choy, broccoli, butternut squash
cabbage, carrots, cauliflower, celery, celery root, collard greens, corn, cucumbers
edamame, eggplant, green beans
Italian beans
kale
lettuce of all varieties, lima beans
mushrooms, mustard greens
okra, onion
parsnips, peas, peppers (all varieties), potatoes
radishes (all varieties), rhubarb
sauerkraut, snow peas, soy beans, spaghetti squash, spinach, split peas, summer squash, sweet potatoes, Swiss chard
tomato, turnips,
wax beans, winter squash
yams, yellow squash
zucchini
Fruits are not quite as easy. Some diets don’t include many fruits. Also, diabetics need to talk to a medical professional or dietitian before eating much fruit. Skip the canned fruits, even in their own natural juices. Dried fruits and fruit chips are not a good option. Fruits that have been processed are not a good option.
apples, apricots
bananas, blackberries, blueberries
cantaloupe, cherries, clementines
grapefruit, grapes
honeydew melon
kiwi
mango
nectarines
orange
papaya, peach, pear, pineapple, plum, pomegranate
raspberries
strawberries
tangerine
watermelon
Whatever your diet, if you eat more fresh fruit and vegetables and fewer processed foods, you’ll lose weight, clean out your arteries, balance your blood pressure, and reduce your health care costs.
Whatever diet you finally choose, I hope you’ll join this blog on your journey. I’ll be sending you tips, information, and tactics to help make your weight control easier.
I’m hoping you’ll find that eating well is not difficult but IS delicious. I’m also hoping that you’ll find your diet will be easier.
Thanks,
Thurman Greco
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Antioxidents: As a Reflexologist, You Work to Encourage Homeostasis. Antioxident-Rich Foods Help You Do Your Job.
If you’re interested in being healthy for the long haul, and if you are interested in facilitating homeostasis for your client partners, you need to know about antioxidents. Dr. Tricia MacNair, M.D., believes we can add two years to our lives by eating a generous amount of antioxidents.
Now, it’s very easy to go an buy a bottle of antioxidents at a vitamin store. And, these bottled antioxidents are better than nothing.
But, what’s better than the bottled products, research is telling us, is the real foods themselves. So, the moral of the story is to get your antioxidents at the grocery store in the produce section.
Listed below are the top 10 winners. They come up in every article, book, story, etc., about healthy foods. These 10 foods fight free radicals which cause oxidation in our bodies. Yes, oxidation.
These 10 foods work to keep you healthy and long lived. Include them in your diet whenever possible
AVOCADO: This is one of the super foods. It will protect your heart, eyes and skin.
BERRIES: Blueberries, cranberries, strawberries, raspberries are all foods that promote good health. They fight aging, mental fuzziness, cancer, and bladder infections.
BROCCOLI: Broccoli helps fight colon and lung cancer, cardiovascular disease, and diabetes.
CABBAGE: When eaten raw, cabbage helps fight stomach and breast cancer, colon cancer.
CARROTS: Carrots fight strokes, heart attacks, sight-robbing diseases, and cancer.
CITRUS FRUIT: Oranges are anticancer foods. Grapefruit reduces cholesterol.
GRAPES: Grape juice helps unclot arteries.
ONIONS: Onions help prevent cancer, particularly stomach cancer.
SPINACH: Spinach fights cancer, heart disease, high blood pressure, strokes, cataracts, macular degeneration.
TOMATOES: Tomatoes help fight digestive tract cancer and promote mental and physical functioning in the elderly.
All of the above listed foods promote longevity. They are, incidentally, all alkaline foods as well.
Hopefully you’ll include these foods in your next trip to the grocery store. They are delicious, nutritious, and important for your health.
Thanks again for reading this blog/book which comes to you from my healing space in scenic downtown Woodstock, NY.
Peace and food for all.
Thurman Greco
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