| Heavy Resolutions
Many students return to the second semester filled with resolve. “I will develop better study habits. I will stop smoking. I will eat better.” For some endeavors, an all or nothing approach may be the answer. When it comes to food, it almost never is.
1. You don’t have to commit to vegetarianism to get your “five a day.” Just adding a bowl of soup at lunch, or tossing some vegetables in with pasta sauce at dinner helps.
2. Adding fresh or dried fruit to cereal in the morning or picking up a smoothie in between classes are a couple easy ways to boost your fruit quota.
3. Switching from white bread or roll to whole wheat bread or roll for sandwiches can help you increase your vitamin and mineral intake.
4. A no-fat-whatsoever-diet is not only unhealthy but difficult to live with. Simply choosing mustard for mayo, sharing a dessert, or trading in 2% or whole milk for 1% or skim milk aids in lowering saturated fat.
Thinking “evolution” instead of “resolution” may prove to be more effective when it comes to your lifestyle goals. Maya Laroia RD
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