Healthy Habits: Clean Eating

9 Easy Ways to Clean Up Your Diet

Surefire rules to help you eat less junk and slim down naturally
By Joe Kita prevention
 

Adjust your tastebuds

If you’re accustomed to eating food with lots of salt, sugar, fat, and other additives, you’ll need to retrain your tastebuds to appreciate the more subtle flavors of whole foods. For instance, if you don’t immediately like the taste of brown rice, mix it with white (in decreasing amounts) until you adapt. (You can do the same thing with whole grain pasta.)

It works for salty and fatty foods, too. Instead of switching immediately to, say, low-sodium soups, mix a regular can with a low-sodium version and adjust the ratio toward less sodium as you get used to the flavor. It can take up to 12 weeks to adjust, says Richard Mattes, MPH, PhD, a professor of foods and nutrition at Purdue University.

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