First step to healthy eating

The first step in knowing how to eat healthy is the balance and variety.

Although it may seem obvious and we have heard it many times, the truth is that most of them do not eat a balanced and varied diet.

The first basic rule for a healthy diet is that it should be complete and varied, that provides us with all the necessary nutrients, both in terms of energy, proteins, carbohydrates and fats, as well as vitamins, minerals, fiber and water.

First step to "knowing how to eat healthy"

In the next post I will summarize why each nutrient is important and what our body needs it for.

Rule No. 1 is to understand that, like almost everything else in life, BALANCE is crucial.

I'll give you an example: many people believe that the first step to eating healthy is to eat salads, grilled fish or breasts, lots of fruit ...... yes, this is fine and better than eating pizzas, sausages, frozen cannelloni and sausages .... but, this diet is not quite complete and has a deficit in a number of nutrients such as legumes, nuts, whole grains ......

We also think that sweets or bread are forbidden, but nothing could be further from the truth! If we take them of good quality, without being industrial with trans fats or added sugars, of course we can eat some from time to time and even every day! This gives to talk for another post, because as sweets “even if they are healthy” are higher in calories, we would have to see if you are not overweight or if your daily activity + sport if you do, make sufficient energy expenditure to burn the calories they bring you.

In short, YOU HAVE TO EAT EVERYTHING, The most important is to eat a balanced diet with as much variety as possible, and if possible, seasonal and fresh (as long as you do not follow a specific diet or are allergic to any food).

And to conclude my explanation of the first step in knowing how to eat healthy, in case you don't understand:

Varied: eat all possible foods, if it is fruit, not only apples and oranges, fish both blue and white, avoid fatty meat and lean meat varies with chicken, rabbit, turkey, Iberian pork ,,,,, vegetables of all kinds, legumes (not only lentils or chickpeas), natural nuts, (without fried or salted), whole grains: not only rice and white pasta, and incorporates others such as millet, soybeans, couscous, quinoa (is a seed), etc..
BalancingDo not stuff yourself with meat, for example, and eat a piece of tomato and bread. Make sure that your plate has the right proportions (we will also talk about this in another post) and if you eat for example meat for lunch, make sure that the dinner is fish.

Finally, I will send you each week EXAMPLES OF HEALTHY AND BALANCED MENUS, so that you begin to get ideas, and understand how food is distributed. Maybe you do not eat at home, I am only one person or a big family, each menu has to be adapted to the personal situation of each one.

My menus are quite complete but much simpler recipes can be made. They are designed to cover all the nutrients recommended by the World Health Organization (WHO). Some of the recipes are on my blog or in the recipe section of my website www.culinaryspain.com or in video-recipe format on reels on my instagram