Healthy eating tip 3: Eat plenty of fruits and vegetables

Fruits and vegetables are very healthy for the body since they have low calories in them and are full of nutrients such as vitamins, minerals, antioxidants, and fiber. Try to eat fruits and vegetables daily if you can because it comes highly recommended. Try eating them raw if you want to get more nutritional benefits you can serve yourself up a plate of raw fruit or vegetables or a small apple or banana, for example. And have yourself a salad.

Try to eat a rainbow fruits and vegetables because they contain higher concentrations of vitamins, minerals, and antioxidants. You can slip in some berries to your breakfast cereals, eat fruit for dessert, and snack on vegetables such as carrots, snow peas, or cherry tomatoes instead of processed snack foods.

• Greens. Branch out beyond lettuce. Kale, mustard greens, broccoli, and Chinese cabbage are all packed with calcium, magnesium, iron, potassium, zinc, and vitamins A, C, E, and K.
• Sweet vegetables. Naturally sweet vegetables—such as corn, carrots, beets, sweet potatoes, yams, onions, and squash—add healthy sweetness to your meals and reduce your cravings for added sugars.
• Fruit. Fruit is a tasty, satisfying way to fill up on fiber, vitamins, and antioxidants. Berries are cancer-fighting, apples provide fiber, oranges and mangoes offer vitamin C, and so on.
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