Tips For Making Fresh Fruit A Part of Your Daily Diet

The New Year is just around the corner, and like millions of Americans you may be thinking and planning ways to improve your diet in 2010. If you want to lose weight, feel better, and help extend your life and vitality, fresh citrus fruit offers a delicious solution to all your new year’s ambitions.

Fresh citrus fruit, the kind found in gift baskets and assorted fruit baskets sold by many online boutiques, is the perfect alternative to common “junk” snack foods like cookies and snack cakes, fast food, and other “quick fixes” found throughout most people’s hectic daily routine. Here are some easy ways that you can include fresh citrus fruit and assorted fruit combinations into your daily patterns. Remember that specific serving information for all food groups is available at several non-profit sites elsewhere online.

Breakfast

Instead of a junky breakfast sandwich from the local fast food place, dig into some ruby red grapefruit or fresh citrus oranges for your first meal of the day. Their high Vitamin C content will load you up with energy, while the high fiber will give you a full feeling that will help curb the desire for mid-morning snacks.

Lunch
Enjoy a light lunch of apples, pears, tangelos and ruby red grapefruit to keep you going throughout the afternoon. If you’re used to eating a big lunch, try eating a serving of fruit as an appetizer. The rich fiber will help you fill up quickly, so that you’re not as hungry for the less healthy foods that follow.

Dinner

The third meal of the day is usually time when people dig in to heavy with rich flavors. Including fresh fruit, for example of the kind found throughout the holidays in fresh citrus baskets, gives you a boost of vitamins that will help your regulatory system better digest your other indulgences. And the vitamins and nutrients you ingest will help you sleep better once you turn in.

Late Night Snacks

This is the one that gets even the most well-intentioned dieters into the most trouble, but it’s also the easiest to correct with a little mental discipline. Replace whatever you’re used to snacking on with fresh citrus fruit. You’ll sleep better, you’ll probably save money, and you won’t have the guilt that comes from indulging when you know you shouldn’t.

Good luck with your plans in the New Year!

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