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| The healthiest vegetables are always green. Greens are undoubtedly healthy, but vegetables and fruits in other colors—red, orange, yellow, blue, and purple—all bring different nutrients to the table. You’ll get the most antioxidants, vitamins and minerals if you keep your plate colorful. |
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 Try to eat:
• Fruit: 2 or 3 servings per day
• Vegetables: 5 to 8 servings per day
• Whole grains (brown rice, whole-grain breads, whole-grain pastas, whole-grain cereals, oats): 7 servings per day
Limit:
• Processed grain foods (pastas made from refined flour, white rice, white bread)
• White sugar
• Soda
• Candy
• Cakes, pies, cookies and other sugar-and-fat laden desserts
• White-flour foods
• Alcohol (I recommend that, to start limiting your alcohol consumption, you figure out how many drinks you average on any given week, then cut that number in half. Don’t try to go cold turkey—you won’t feel very well since alcohol is a drug.)
Drink:
• A minimum of eight 8-ounce glasses of water every day. Click here to find out how to work more water into your day.
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