Alison Berg, an assistant professor in the foods and nutrition department at the College of Family and Consumer Sciences and an extension specialist with UGA Cooperative Extension, offers four tips to help you keep your resolution to be healthier in 2017:
1. Eat the rainbow. Eat a variety of vegetables. If you eat a lot of green beans and spinach but you never touch butternut squash or beets, give them a try.
2. Eat protein for breakfast. Eating breakfast is important, but eating protein for breakfast is just as important. Protein at breakfast seems to help people feel fuller and stay satisfied longer.
3. Eat some fat (the good kind). Healthy fats, like those found in fish, avocados, nuts and healthy oils like olive and canola oil, are good for our hearts and brains, and they also help our meals have staying power. Fats help us feel full, so don’t try and cut too many calories by leaving out the fats.
4. Move more. We all need to find a great exercise routine, but just getting more physical activity throughout the day will help your body ward off disease and will likely help your mood. Get up from your desk and take a lap around the building.
Source: UGA Cooperative Extension
