Eating habits are repetitive patterns of behavior related to food: why and how people eat, what foods they buy, and how they store them.
Habits are influenced by individual, social, cultural, religious, economic, environmental, and even political factors, so each person will have their own.
Healthy eating habits
Habits can be good or bad. Let’s talk about the good ones first.
Eat lots of vegetables and fruits
They are rich in vitamins, minerals, fiber, and antioxidants. People who eat enough vegetables and fruits are less likely to become obese, have heart disease, have strokes, have diabetes, and have some types of cancer.
WHO recommends eating 400 grams of vegetables (except potatoes and other starchy root vegetables) and fruits per day. Moreover, this recommendation applies not only to fresh foods, but also to cooked, canned, and even dried ones.
Plan your meals
Planning helps you stick to a healthier diet and control your weight. If you take the time to plan your menu in advance, you won’t have to rack your brains over what to cook for dinner. You can make a plan on the weekend, buy the necessary products and prepare ingredients for the week, for example, wash and peel vegetables, make meat preserves. This will help significantly reduce the time spent on cooking, which means it will protect you from unhealthy snacks.
Cook at home yourself
This way you can be sure of each ingredient and the quality of the dish. Often in restaurants, they put too much sugar, salt and fatty sauces in dishes. At home, you can avoid this and cook healthier dishes: add more vegetables, replace wheat flour with rice or corn flour, and mayonnaise in salads with oil.
