19/06/19
4 tips for a healthy diet
Fad diets continue to spring up, but it has been shown repeatedly that these are usually unsustainable in the long run.
There are a few simple rules that promote health:
- Increase dietary fibre – this results in healthier food choices and gut bacteria, with consequent health improvements.
- Eat the rainbow – eat foods of lots of different coloured foods. Purple vegetables are consumed more in longer living societies.
- 5 a day – eat at least 5 servings of fruit and vegetables each day – the research around this supports increasing the 5 to 10 or 15, but the public health advisers feel that setting a higher goal would be setting people up for failure, demoralisation and abandonment of the advice.
- Eat less meat – the World Health Organization (WHO) now consider eating red and processed meat in the same carcinogen category as smoking tobacco and asbestos exposure – find out more in this article
If you are concerned about your diet, talk to your GP and contact the clinic to make an appointment.
