Balanced Diets

Eating a balanced diet and exercising regularly ensures a better chance of your leading a healthy lifestyle for longer. Read our diet tips and slimming advice to help with your balance diet and weight control.

Sustainable weight management is the name of the game here and it is achievable through hard work, dedication, the right attitude and eating the right foods in sufficient quantities. Eating right via a balanced diet is the first step towards sustainable weight loss and control.

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  The Key Types Of Foods

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Eating at Regular Intervals

One of the first things to appreciate is that eating involves consuming your meals at regular intervals, in fact we are not designed for thee main meals a day the optimum being 5 or 6 smaller meals. However, snacking should be avoided wherever possible as this can lead to weight gain.

The types of food you eat in your balanced diet are absolutely essential to helping you live a healthier lifestyle too. For example, there are some basic food groups that you must base your diet around, for a balanced, nutritious diet.

In order to ensure you get access to the right blend of carbohydrates, fibre, protein, fats, sugars and salt, as well as vitamins and minerals, you need to ensure you eat the right foods in the appropriate quantities.

It's no use trying to starve yourself to help you to lose weight. You'll simply lose some in the immediate short term but pile it back on with (some extra usually) over the forthcoming weeks. Eating disorders often arise as a result of trying too hard to lose weight or because someone's perception of reality is inaccurate and they tend to view themselves as being fat when in truth they are far from it.

So What's the Best Way to Manage Your Weight?

A balanced diet, combined with regular physical activity is the best method to lose and manage weight. You can help your cause though by eating sensibly and sometimes avoiding certain foods that you would usually consume without a second thought. Reducing alcohol consumption is a great way to lose weight and improve your health. Being generally high in calories, drinking alcohol will promote weight gain.

Although there is evidence to support the theory that consuming one or two units a day can actually prevent heart disease, it is something that you might want to avoid in large quantities. Excessive drinking is extremely detrimental to your health and can cause you problems with your liver, brain, pancreas, stomach and your heart. It also results in high blood pressure.