Healthy Eating (Living Well Month)
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Collapse ▲This week for Living Well Month we are focused on healthy eating. Establishing healthy eating habits can help you maintain a healthy weight, feel better, and lower your risk for chronic disease. It’s an important part of living well.
One way you can eat healthy is by including a rainbow of colors from fruits and vegetables into your meals each day. Why? Because the phytonutrient that gives each plant their specific color provides protection to that plant from environmental dangers and disease. Those same phytonutrients offer us protection as well when we include them in our diet.
When people eat fruits and vegetables the phytonutrients present help protect them from chronic diseases. In fact, research shows eating patterns based on fruits and vegetables are linked to a decreased risk of several chronic diseases, such as cardiovascular disease, and might also help protect against certain cancers (Aune et al., 2017).
Each color is associated with a specific phytonutrient that has various benefits. None of them are better than the other, so it’s important to get a variety of colors into your diet.
Interested in following this week’s challenge? The PDF is below if you’d like to learn more about healthy eating and join the challenge.
References:
- Dagfinn Aune, Edward Giovannucci, Paolo Boffetta, Lars T Fadnes, NaNa Keum, Teresa Norat, Darren C Greenwood, Elio Riboli, Lars J Vatten, Serena Tonstad, Fruit and vegetable intake and the risk of cardiovascular disease, total cancer and all-cause mortality—a systematic review and dose-response meta-analysis of prospective studies, International Journal of Epidemiology, Volume 46, Issue 3, June 2017, Pages 1029–1056