Small Tips to Make Your Diet Healthier

Oat meal isn't just for breakfast. Add uncooked oats to your meat loafs, sloppy joes, or any other ground meat recipe. Mix a couple teaspoons of brown sugar with 1/4cup of oats then sprinkle the mixture over your fresh fruit. You can replace up to half of the regular flour, in most bread recipes, with oat flour, thus increasing the fiber intake in your daily diet.

Brown rice is more nutritious than the white rice. Adding brown rice to a stir fry, or grown meat recipe will make it more filling and better for you.

Using the right oil will also help keep you healthy. Always read the labels when buying food.

Trans fat is found in many foods but mainly in commercial baked goods, french fries, fried chicken and snack food crackers. If the label says the food is made with hydrogenated vegetable oils, shortening or hard margarine, it will contain trans fat.

Saturated fat occurs naturally in many foods. It primarily comes from animal sources, including beef, lamb, pork, lard, real butter and cheese.

The better fats are monounsaturated and polyunsaturated fats found in olive, canola and peanut oils. Many nuts, seeds and avocados contain these good fats, also.

Reading and understanding labels will help all of us live better.