Please provide some do's and don'ts on eating a nutritious diet.

Eat: Eat more slowly—your stomach will have a chance to signal it is full and help you avoid overeating.

Start: Start every dinner with a colorful salad (and healthy salad dressing). Fill up with goodness first!

Children: Children love sweets. You have to give them healthy alternative. Popcorn!

Ignore: Do eat vegetables and/or fruit every time you eat. Don't fry anything - ever!

Ignore: Do use plastic containers but don't use the ones that are not safe. Read labels.

Ignore: Drink about 1 gallon of water every day if you are healthy without other medical problems.

Ignore: 100 calorie snacks are not necessarily a good choice- instead snack on whole fruits.

Avoid: Avoid pkg'd foods with more than five ingredients. If you can't pronounce it, don't eat it!

Growing: Growing your own food, No processed foods or foods exposed to pesticides/ hormones.

Don't: Don't diet, change your relationship with food! Cut back sweets & fried food. Eat more fruit & veg.

When: When to eat-? Only when hungry What to eat-? prefer vegetarian 70-80 % of total meal.

Try: Try eating berries to satisfy sweet cravings instead of candy or chocolate.

1: 1 cup: strawberries=50 cal.; blueberries=80 cal.; raspberries=65 cal.; & blackberries=60 cal EAT 'em.

Go: Go for the red grapes over green. Red grapes have more antioxidant & nutritional benefits than green.

Compulsive: Compulsive Eaters: Continue 2Eat even after feeling sick from eating 2 much; Eat 2Fast; Eat secretly.

Compulsive: Compulsive Eaters: Eat everything on the plate; Feel guilty when they eat; Binge after a diet.

Encourage: Encourage your Toddler to eat a variety of foods including healthy fats, fresh vegetables, and fruit.

Eat: Eat 8 to 10 servings of non-starchy vegetables and fruits each day.

Eat: Eat cruciferous vegetables like broccoli, cabbage & Brussels sprouts daily to help prevent cancers.

Avoid: Avoid artificial sweeteners. They actually increase your risk for diabetes and obesity!

Good: Good sources of fiber are different Beans, Pears,Sweet potatoes,greenPeas and Berries.

If: If time is an issue pre-cook a few healthy meals, when you get home you can choose one to reheat.

Make: Make sure to check the labels of all food you buy.

Ignore: Shop the perimeter, avoid processed/acidic foods, rare sugar, no soda, LOTS of water, grow your own!