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Think color! Eat a rainbow of nutrients. Red, orange, deep yellow, and dark green leafy veggies and or fruits are great sources of carotenoids. These mighty plant pigments function as antioxidants, protecting your body against some forms of disease. Choose spinach, red bell pepper, okra, leafy greens like kale, collard greens, and romaine lettuce, apricots, cantaloupes, mangos, and sweet potatoes.

 

Choosing the right running surface goes a long way toward protecting your knees. Find a grass, dirt, all-weather track or some other soft surface if you want to pick up the pace of your workout and run. Avoid asphalt it increases the impact on your joints -- and your chance of injuries, sore knees and shin splints.

 

By changing the way you snack, you may make it easier to lose weight. Eating something every 3 - 4 hours sustains energy, helps build a day's worth of good nutrition, and prevents hunger that may lead to overeating. Stock your desk with the right stuff: Ready-to-eat whole-grain cereal; single-serving microwave popcorn, fruit juices or low-fat pudding; vanilla wafers, fig bars or ginger snaps without hydrogenated oils; instant oatmeal; applesauce; canned fruit (in its own juice).

 

If milk and cereal is your favorite breakfast, try this trick to avoid getting blindsided by calories: Measure a single serving -- as indicated in the Nutrition Facts panel -- in a cup before pouring it into the bowl. Serving size usually ranges from 3/4 cup to 1 1/2 cups, depending on the variety. Be prepared: You may be amazed at how small the portion is! Fill the remainder of the bowl with fresh berries to increase the portion in a more nutritious way! Bonus tip: Buy a cereal with at least 3 grams of dietary fiber per serving.

 

 

 

10 Easy Ways to Make Exercise a HabitTry these tricks to become one of the fitness faithful

 

Let's face it: it's not all that difficult to start a fitness routine. After all, most of us have done it more than once.

 

The trouble, of course, comes with sticking with it. All too often, our initial enthusiasm and energy wanes, we get distracted by other things going on in our lives, or we don't think we're seeing results quickly enough -- and we throw in the towel.

Yet many people do manage to hang in there, and would no sooner skip their regular workout than their morning shower. What's their secret?

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