Simple Steps to Eat Healthier - Nutritionist Tip

We all need reminders of how to eat healthier, myself included.  This will help eat cleaner which will help reduce our risks for disease and help us to live a more balanced lifestyle.

1. Cut Down On Sugar

Most of us eat too much sugar. On average, Americans consume 475 calories of added sugars every day (that’s 30 teaspoons), which is way higher than what’s recommended by the American Heart Association (6 teaspoons per day for women, 9 for men).

2. Cut Down On Salt

Americans, on average, eat 3,400 milligrams of sodium in a day, about 1,000 mg more than we should. And if we cut that much out of our daily diets, we’d lower our risk of heart disease by up to 9 percent, according to a study in the New England Journal of Medicine.  Here at Eatfitter’s we limit our daily intake to 2600 mg of sodium a day.  We pride ourselves for keeping our meals in the AMA‘s recommended daily allotment for sodium. 

3. Cut Down On Saturated Fat

Saturated fat—the kind of fat that’s found in whole milk, cheese, butter and meat - raises your “bad” LDL cholesterol, which can damage arteries.  Limit the amount to less than 10% of your daily calories.