Thanks for sharing your ideas here. I think the points you mentioned here are fantastic. Clear and to the point…It’s a post on it’s own ;) It’s good to know that a lot us of really care about what we eat and how :)

Cheers! :)

It says they respond to copyright violations, you should be able to have Blogger investigate the case.

Anyway, as for the article I think a couple of great habits to get into are:

- Gradually using acceptable substitutes.

I used to drink Dr. Pepper in my early teen years. Once I learned the ill effects of caffeine and the acids, I then switched to Sprite for several years. Eventually, I phased that out with milk/water/juice and now drink mostly milk and water.

Same thing goes with foods. I used to eat a lot of red meat. Loved steak, burgers, anything that could almost walk off my plate was perfect for me.

Then I slowly started eating more chicken and turkey, until I ended up not having red meat. Now I’m moving to more low-mercury fish (Salmon and Tilapia primarily) and eating less chicken and turkey.

If you had told my younger self that a decade and a half later I wouldn’t drink soda or eat red meat, I’d have called you crazy. Now, I’d just say it’s par for the course.

For desserts, I love chocolate… Now instead of having a bar or half-bar, I just have a few squares. Another thing I might do is put some fat-free organic chocolate sauce on a sliced banana. The banana fiber helps digest the sugars more slowly, and the fat-free helps make sure I’m not having cholesterol artery-clogging fats bring me to an early heart attack.

- Another habit which is good to get into is not eating for 2 hours before going to bed. When we eat closer to bedtime, our body shuts down but leaves the undigested food in our stomach. Then the bacteria come out to play and feast on this rotting food all night long in our bellies… we wake up hungry, and the excretions from bacteria can be a significant cause of really bad smelling farts.

- Eat out less often. When we are learning to eat healthier, eating at home makes a big difference so we have greater control over our diets and what we take in.

- For 1 week, measure out a serving size for everything you eat. Having a bottled drink? Read the label and see if it’s 1 serving or two. Having steak? Find out how many ounces are in a serving, and then notice that your steak on the table is probably anywhere from 3-4 servings. Having pasta for dinner? Take out the measuring cup and calculate servings.

Once I started seeing how much fat, sugars, etc, were in a service size, I started eating a LOT healthier. I also found that it took less quantity of food to fill me up as I started understanding how a serving size of one food might leave me unfulfilled and another might really fill me up.

http://uncommonbody.blogspot.com/2008/01/7-easy-tips-for-better-eating-habits.html