5 easy ways to improve your diet
Words: Guy Aubrey Devito
Can’t remember the last time you ate a piece of fruit? Chocaholic? It’s probably time that you looked at improving your diet. Some people think that improving your diet is all about chewing on sticks of celery and eschewing all things sweet and salty – but it doesn’t have to be that way. Here are 5 easy ways to improve your diet.
1. DRINK FRUIT JUICE
Apparently we’re not just meant to have five pieces of fruit and veg a day, we’re now meant to have seven or over – but who has the time or the inclination to stuff their face with fruit all day? A much better option is to drink fresh fruit juice as it provides a thirst quenching, healthy alternative to all those unhealthy coffees and sodas.
2. ONLY EAT WHEN YOU FEEL HUNGRY
Humans are very set in their ways about when they eat – but who came up with the concept of eating a meal at dawn, a meal at dusk and one in between? Eating when you feel hungry (rather than binging at mealtimes) allows your body to regulate at process the nutrients with greater efficiency and prevents you from overeating.
3. FOCUS ON FISH
Obviously there are now environmental concerns about fish consumption, with species such as cod and plaice being subject to overfishing. However there are plenty of tasty and inexpensive fish species to eat that are extremely beneficial to your health. By substituting meat for fish, you’ll enjoy the benefits of protein without the fat, vitamins or minerals. You’ll also get the omega-3 fatty acids, proven to be excellent for your health.
4. DON’T BE A GLUTTON FOR GLUTEN
Bread is terrible for you, it’s full of carbs, starch, chemicals and, worst of all, gluten. Farmers put nitrogen and sulphur on their wheat crop to increase its development, the flour is pumped full of sugar and additives, and gluten is used to bind the doughy mix together. By drastically reducing your bread intake, or by going for a gluten free and/or brown bread, made from rye or wholemeal wheat.
5. REDUCE YOUR DAIRY
Milk with your cappuccino? fine, cheese sprinkled over your bolognese? fine. Wolfing down blocks of cheese with your ploughman’s lunch? not fine, guzzling large milkshakes? not fine. Think about how unnatural it is to enjoy the offerings of another animal’s mammary glands and get that dairy intake right down.
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