The Good For You Lifestyle

Having a vegetarian diet can help lower the risk of type 2 diabetes and help you discover a new more healthy lifestyle. Meat is very bad for you and causes bloating in middle age, especially if mixed with too much alcohol, so replace it and include dried beans, like kidney or pinto and plenty of lentils and pulses into your daily meals.

Cut back on high calorie snack foods and desserts like chips, cookies, cakes, chocolate, ice cream and sweet fizzy drinks. To stay looking young in middle age go for non-fat dairy, such as skimmed milk, non-fat yogurt and non-fat cheese. Choose vegetable oil for cooking instead of solid fats and always use plenty of olive oil for your skin and hair. It is a great tip to add a little vinegar to your daily diet, including vinegar-based salad dressing. Vinegar helps slow the rate at which body absorbs sugar from your food. Cut out butter and salt to add flavor to food, try using herbs instead for more flavor. Opt for a high fibre cereals and oats because high fibre is digested more slowly. Try soya, eggplant, spinach, tofu and zucchini as a replacement for the meat in your recipes.  Eating too much of anything can lead to unwanted weight gain, so, watch your portion sizes and stick to 2000 calories per day for Women and 2500 for Men.

Looking and feeling great is the secret to happiness at any age but the older we get, the harder the task becomes, so get in shape, save money and enjoy a long healthy happy lifestyle now by giving up eating meat.