Healthy eating brings a vision of bland diets and watery cereals to many people's mind. It does not necessarily have to be so! You can still eat the food you love, the only restriction being your judicious mixture of essentials and your favorites. You do not have to go overboard nor do you have to deprive yourself like a hermit.
Water is the elixir of life. This panacea is largely ignored by most people. Water can cure many illnesses without having to resort to medicines. So, drink as much water as you can. A person should drink at least 2-3 liters of water everyday.
What you eat is less to do with healthy eating than how you do it. People with illnesses can always substitute foods that they crave for with similar food. A hypertensive patient will be surprised that Soya can be cooked with the right ingredients in such a way that he could soon forget that he is missing his all time favorite lamb chops.
You do not have to make a change overnight. A healthy eating regimen can replace your unrestricted diet in such a way that would seem unobtrusive. Easy does it. Do not go the whole hog. For instance, replace fried potato with fresh salad and attractively colored vegetables like broccoli and beets. Olive oil is far healthier than butter though you would feel a little odd in the beginning but before you know it, you would have developed a taste for the new distinct aroma that olive oil bequeaths the food. Since oil is extensively used in cooking, replacement of butter leads to healthy eating to a considerable extent.
Diabetic patients do not have to completely shun anything that tastes sweet. Modern research has formulated many substitute concoctions that are not very distinguishable from sugar. They manage to taste like the real McCoy without the risks that you are subjected to when you imbibe sugar. Try these alternatives in your daily meals and live a healthy life. After all health is wealth!
So, the real mantra of today's world is to eat healthy and stay healthy!