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Top Tips For Cooking Healthy Food

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Cooking Healthy Food

 

If you want to live more healthily, your diet is always a good place to start. You can make a huge difference to your health simply by taking a look at what you are eating and improving upon it. Doing this is likely going to help you to have a much better energy level, and to ensure you are getting all of what your body really needs, so both of those are great reasons to do this. Let’s look at how you can ensure that you are cooking healthy food at home, so that this is all the easier to achieve.

 

Treat Your Ingredients Right

 

A big part of this really just comes down to making sure that you are treating your ingredients as they should be treated. If you can do that, it’s going to mean that you’re much more likely to have healthier food, because one of the biggest mistakes people make in the kitchen is over-cooking food that then loses its nutrients, or not making the most of a certain ingredient. So whether you are leaving the skin on carrots or learning how to smoke a pork butt, it’s all going to help towards making food that is both delicious but also wholesome.

 

Shop For Healthier Food

 

It might sound simple, but one of the best things you can do here is to simply make sure you are shopping for healthier food. As long as the food you have in the house is a lot healthier, you are going to end up with much healthier resulting meals as well, so that is definitely an approach that is worth taking here. Plan ahead with your meals so that you know what you are getting from the shops, and that way you are going to be less tempted to spend money on less healthy ingredients when you’re there.

 

Use Better Fats

 

All good food needs fat at some point or another, and it’s a vital part of the cooking process to apply fat where necessary. But by switching out one fat for another, you can make it so that your food is so much healthier in general, and that’s something which is going to be really important in all of this. Using olive oil rather than butter, for example, is going to mean that your meals are a lot healthier for you, and still delicious at the same time.

 

Use Less Salt

So much modern cooking has far too much salt in it, and the result is that you end up with a whole heap of sodium in your body that you don’t really need. This is bad for your heart and your other organs too, so reducing your salt intake just a little is going to help you to have much healthier meals in no time. Make sure that you are thinking about this if you want to cook healthier meals in the home, and simply try to sprinkle on a little less each time. You’ll soon get used to the difference in taste.

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Naturally Yours,
Elise Ho
Ph.D., D.N. Psych.
Behavioral & Mental Health Specialist

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Dr. Elise Ho

Dr. Elise Ho

Dr. Elise Ho is a Holistic Health & Life Coach with a special interest in emotional health, life alignment, and energy flow.

Elise will partner with you to align your mindset, your energy, your home and your career so that you can live your life's desire with freedom and love.

Elise offers 30 years of experience and multiple certifications and degrees including a Ph.D. in Natural Health and a doctoral degree in Naturopathic Psychology.