A wise food decision is one that suits with
you nutrition and physical status, you financial and hobbies. The followings
are tips from nutrition experts.
They have to suit with your nutrition status
Thin people who want to gain weight need to
choose fatty foods like half fat half lean meat, fatty fish, fried foods… On
the opposite, fat people who want to lose weight should choose low-fat,
low-sugar foods, such as: lean meat, low-fat fish, skinless poultry, and limit
eating fried foods.
The
food decisions need to suit with the nutrition status.
They have to suit with your health
If you have diseases relates to regimen
such as: diabetes, hypertension, dyslipidemia…, choose low-fat and low-sugar
foods, eat more vegetables, ripe low-sugar fruits and limit eating processed
fruits…
They have to suit with your financial statement
Despite
a small amount of money, you can still have a good and nutritious meal.
Despite a small amount of money, you can
still have a good and nutritious meal; you just need to know how to choose the
foods. Instead of buying big and expensive fishes and shrimps, you should buy
small shrimps and roast them with carambola or small fishes and cook them with
brine till its bones turn well-done, which not only helps make sure of the
protein supply, but also provide a much better amount of calcium in comparison
to the calcium amount of big fishes and shrimps which were got rid of bones.
If
you can’t afford fruits like American grape, Thailand mango, unseasonable orange…
you should buy banana, cucumber…
If you can’t afford fruits like American
grape, Thailand mango, unseasonable orange… you should buy banana, cucumber…
Those fruits are cheap but, they are still able to provide you with a necessary
amount of vitamins and minerals.
The choice of foods depends on seasons. In
winter, you should eat the stewed and fried that have lots of fat and should be
eaten when hot. In summer, you should choose cool, low-fat foods and limit the
fried, increase the steamed and boiled.
You
should consider in choosing fresh foods that are preserved in safety and
hygiene value.
And as housewives, you should consider in
choosing fresh foods that are preserved in safety and hygiene value:
·
Pork, beef: red, sticky and have good
elasticity.
·
Processed poultry: have no bruise, bright
yellow, shrinks at the cut skin area. Alive poultries should have smooth
feather, bright eyes, dry anus and firm meat.
·
Fish: still be able to swim or have bright
flake, red gill, slim belly, meat that is firm and have good elasticity.
·
Green vegetables: fresh, no bruise, strange
smell; they should be bought from reputable store and have safe and clean
vegetables certification.
·
Ripe fruits: fresh, and have no bruise
·
Processed foods: labeled, from specified address
and date, reputable manufacturers.
