4 food hacks

Here are for very simple ways you can transform the quality of your diet

1) Water not flavoured drinks

Hydration is obviously hugely important to health – you are after all a bag of chemical reactions happening mainly in water however many people are chronically dehydrated and when they do drink they choose wrong.

Get used to having most of you water coming from non calorie containing beverages. However you’ll still want to avoid low cal fizzy drinks (which contain strong acids) and artificially sweetened products which may be a problem to health (whilst they can be considered safe there remain many question marks).

Fruit teas and green teas are good choices but ideally you should get accustomed to drinking plain water as this will allow you to drink more and more easily.

2) Brown carbs not white

Brown grain based foods like pasta, bread etc are made from grains that haven’t been so highly polished, this means that they retain lots more fibre and micronutrients. ‘Brown’ choices don;t have to be boring and they are often more tasty, tyr different grain breads and mixing white and brown pasta as a way to transition over to the better choices

3) Oats not breakfast cereals

Again, there’s lots more fibre to be had as well as more in the way of micronuteints but also they will keep you fuller much longer helping you avoid blood sugar crashes and cravings for sweets and chocolate.

4) Omega three not trans fats
These fats are damaged (trans and cyclical fats) such that the body has a very hard time processing them, there really is no specific safe limit for these fats so avoid products that contain the works ‘hydrogenated vegetable oil’ on the ingredients such as some crisps, margarines, peanut butters and very many processed foods (especially those found in the un-refrigerated sections of the supermarket.

Omega 3 type fats are the polar opposite to trans fats, they are very useful to the body but hard to get hold of n the diet. Including oily fish, grass feed beef and plenty of foods like walnuts and flax oils of seeds will support you intake.

It’s hard to overstate the importance of these fats, they are involved in a huge array of beneficial processes in the body but due to the fact that they go rancid easily they are practically speaking hard to get hold of so get as much as you can when you can.

There you go, it couldn’t be any clearer. 4 simple ways to transform your diet