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Old 07-28-2012, 11:37 AM
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Smile Step #1: Eliminate all processed foods

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Originally Posted by Carney125 View Post
Always take healthy and balanced diet for your good health and fitness.
Include all necessary foods elements such vitamins, protein, fiber, carbohydrates, calcium, iron, and some healthy fat in your diet to make it more healthy and balanced.
Good advice, Carney. To start with, I would suggest eliminating all processed foods (other than cooking, which is a form of processing). To the degree that we eat processed foods, we unbalance our diets because processed foods are unbalanced.

Examples:

An apple is balanced but apple pie is not.

Cherries - yes / Cherry cobbler - no

Corn - yes / corn syrup - no

Sugar cane - yes / granulated sugar - no

Meat from wild game - yes / domesticated grain-fed animals - no

Mother's milk - yes / cow's milk - no

Potatoes - yes / potato chips - no

Vegetable toppings - yes / pizza - no

Baked goods made with flour - no

Whole fresh fruit - yes / fruit juice - no

Whole grains - yes / processed grains - no

Note: I hesitated to include meat but I threw it in as a token to those who feel they must eat meat every day. Anyway, the above are just examples so as to provide a starting point.