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[quote=Anonymous]It means healthier.

Healthier to most people means more whole vegetables and fruit, and more fiber. Whole as in less processed, either fresh or frozen. Healthier also means a diet with less added sugar, less salt, less animal fat, less processed foods. Processed means highly transformed foods that in the course of the transformation with high heat or the addition of various substances, tend to increase your cholesterol and high blood pressure, generally due to the presence of saturated and trans fats and salt; and/or tend to increase your risk of diabetes, due to the presence of too much rapid sugars (sugar in all its forms and refined carbs, ie, those without fiber).

In practice, it means reduce animal meat and fat consumption (like butter, red meat, etc); cut back on added sugars in your drinks and food; increase whole veggies and fruit; prefer whole carbs to refined carbs (brown rice, whole wheat bread, etc). Explore how to make complete proteins with plants (rice and beans = whole protein). Stay away from ready-made dishes that you just need to heat, and from fast food type places.

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