PRINCIPLES OF BEST NUTRITION

(1) Each of us can strive to eat fresh, unprocessed food, much of it from the plant kingdom and uncooked.

(2) Breakfast cereals and processed food, especially white bread are often poor choices. Be conscious of not eating too much wheat-derived products.

(3) Choose many colours of plants as this ensures a better availability of multiple antioxidants.

(4) Choose the best fatty acids in the safest amounts. This is covered in Chapter 18.

(5) Find ways of getting minerals and trace elements.

(6) Be very wary of poor food labelling, especially in processed food.

(7) Do not believe the company advertising! When something is claimed to be low in fat, it may have a high glycaemic index.

(8) Petition Parliamentarians to attain better food labelling.

(9) Obtain a book which gives explicit details of additives.

(10) Don’t let your children get into the habit of demanding poor foods. Hopefully, they will never see white bread in your house, and seldom be offered fast food.

(11) Eat slowly where possible and don't eat if you are not hungry.

(12) Consider that each of us have genetic patterns which may make certain persons prone to not feel satiety. Such persons, if tending to be overweight, can improve their health by trying to work out a lower calorie diet