Want to Eat Healthier? Try Adding to Your Diet!
There’s nothing like a nutrition meeting to make you want to set fire to your diet.
Like most people who consider themselves relatively healthy, I thought I ate pretty well. Largely vegetarian, lots of fruit, minimal alcohol. Overall, my diet is probably doing what it needs to do to keep my body and bones strong. There’s room for improvement, but surely not much, right? Wrong!
At the annual American Society for Nutrition meeting that wrapped up in early June, I learned that my diet — and maybe yours, too — could be so much better. Later this year, we’ll get some new recommendations when the federal government releases the dietary guidelines for 2025–2030, which are updated every five years based on the latest science. New changes may include a stronger emphasis on eating beans, peas and lentils and less red and processed meat, according to a recent report from the guidelines advisory committee.
Excerpted from Science News
