If you want to make an immediate impact on your health and lifestyle for the better then follow these 5 rules on eating food to improve your overall wellbeing. The following list works through 5 simple steps to help you improve your eating habits. If you follow these rules you should start feeling healthier, decrease your body fat percentage, start to work towards a flat stomach and perhaps even improve your ability to fall and stay asleep throughout the night.

1. Eat REAL Food!

An easy way to dramatically improve your health is to eat real food! By this I mean eating food in it’s natural state. This means eating food as close as possible to the way nature intended it to be. Consume less processed grains, go for rolled oats over instant, brown rice over white and defiantly no white bread. Try switching to a sourdough or whole grain bread. Actually eat fruit instead of purchasing products that contain “real fruit”. Finally it also means preparing more of your own food at home instead of buying factory produced processed packaged meals.

Following the same line of thought you want to eat foods that contain no or minimal amounts of flavorings, preservatives and colorings. When you do your shopping make sure you actually check the labels and go for products where you recognize all the ingredients. Avoid items that are made up of powders, flavorings and numbers!

2. Eat Local Produce

Try and source your food from locally grown suppliers. Almost all cities and suburbs have a local farmers market somewhere. Find it and support your local manufactures and farmers. Buying your fruit, vegetables and meats from the supermarket is a great convenience but it comes at the cost of truly fresh and seasonal eating.

3. Eat More Fruit and Vegetables

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We all know that we need to be eating more fruit and vegetables. Fruit and vegetables should be making up one third of the food you eat each day and it’s also important to be eating a variety. The recommended daily intake is 5 portions of fruit and vegetables. Also remember that fruit and vegetables are very low in fat.

If you are a vegetarian then the next two rules might not apply to you. If this is the case then you need to make sure you are getting enough nutrients in your diet. Along with your fruit and vegetables try to include nuts, legumes, whole grains, seeds, dairy foods and eggs (assuming you are not vegan). Tofu and other soybean products are also a great source of protein in a vegetarian diet.

4. Eat Fresh Lean Meat

Choose to eat meat that is a lean cut which will keep saturated fats to a minimum and allow you to get the maximum amount of protein, minerals and vitamins available from the meat. You should also try to source meat that is produced free of antibiotics and hormones, in other words free range or organic.

5. Eat Oily Fish

Over the last few years there has been a massive push to increase the amount of omega 3 fatty acids in our diet. Oily fish are a great source of these omega 3 fats and they are essential to our diet. Great fish sources are salmon, herring, mackerel, anchovies and sardines. Other oily fish such as tuna also contain omega 3 fats but in somewhat lesser amounts.

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