Healthy foods

In order to achieve healthy life, one must have good foods in time. Foods with appropriate calories and taken in-time contributes your healthy life.


Today I would like to point out what kind of foods one has to have in order to achieve an healthy life.

Base your meals on starchy foods

Starch or amylum is a carbohydrate consisting of a large number of glucose units joined by glycosidic bonds. This polysaccharide is produced by all green plants as an energy store. It is the most common carbohydrate in the human diet and is contained in large amounts in such staple foods as potatoes, wheat, maize (corn), rice, bread and cassava.

Many other starchy foods are grown, some only in specific climates, including acorns, arrowroot, arracacha, bananas, barley, breadfruit, buckwheat, canna, colacasia, katakuri, kudzu, malanga, millet, oats, oca,polynesian arrowroot, sago, sorghum, sweet potatoes, rye, taro, chestnuts, water chestnuts and yams, and many kinds of beans, such as favas, lentils, mung beans, peas, and chickpeas.

Widely used prepared foods containing starch are bread, pancakes, cereals, noodles, pasta, porridge and tortilla.

You have to intake starchy foods up around one third of the foods you eat in a day. Majority of us has to depend upon more intake of starchy foods in order to be healthier: with each main meal try to include atleast one starchy food. Common thinking around us is that taking of starchy foods are fattening, believe that this starchy foods contains fewer than half the calories of fat. To be full for longer you have to choose wholegrain varieties when you can, as they contain more fibre.

Eat lots of fruits and vegetables

It’s recommended that we eat at least five portions of different types of fruits and vegetables a day. It’s easier than it sounds. A glass of 100% unsweetened fruit juice can count as one portion, and vegetables cooked into dishes also count. Why not chop a banana over your breakfast cereal, or swap your usual mid-morning snack for some dried fruit? 

The health benefits of diet rich in vegetables and fruits are countless. It lowers our blood pressure; reduce risk of heart disease, stroke, and probably some cancers; lowers risk of eyes and digestive problems; and a mellowing effect on blood sugar too, that can help keep appetite in check.


Try following to have fruits and vegetables in your daily life:


To keep a routine of eating fruits and vegetables habits, you keep it out on the counter or in the front of the fridge, so that you 'll be more likely to eat it.


Selecting varieties of fruits and vegetables is an healthy diet. Always try to have new fruits and vegetables in order to get more healthy benefits.


Even at snack time, if you can get fruits and vegetables, it would be best to get more benefits to your health.

Eat more fish

An healthy food source

      When you are planning for a weekly diet, you don't forget to include fish. Fish is an healthy food and it has lots of variety in taste and also in its texture. It is low in saturated fat and versatile too.   Obesity of a person is not a problem to have fish, as it contains low calories.  So don't skip fish while you take up your meals.

The portion of vitamins, proteins and minerals are rich in fish and it is a good source for these too. So, to be healthy  you plan to take up at least two portions a week in which you can either include one portion of oily fish. Because oily fish is high in omega-3fats, which helps developments of our brains and also it may help to prevent heart disease. 

Selecting fish from fresh, frozen and canned is good; but as regards with canned and smoked fish, it can be high in salt. Those who suffering from high blood pressure can avoid canned and smoked fish, instead let them take fresh and frozen fish.

Oily fishes are: 

Salmon, mackerel, trout, herring, fresh tuna, sardines and pilchards.

Non-oily fishes are:

Plaice, coley, cod, tinned tuna, skate and hake