If you think eating right is exorbitantly expensive or takes more time than you have available for eating, you’re not alone. There is a common mis-perception that a healthy/nutritious diet requires people to shell out a lot of dough (the monetary variety), and dedicate a lot of time and energy to food preparation. Then there are all of the claims and information, some of it quite technical, that you have to wade through to even know which foods or ingredients are healthy and which are not, or in what quantities each type of food is healthy or unhealthy. Who has time for all that? Well, everyone should, because time, and the quality of that time, is exactly what is at risk if we continue to make our eating and drinking choices in the same haphazard ways we have grown accustomed to over the last century.
Anyway, we’re in luck, because making significant and healthy choices in our diet is easier today than it has ever been. In the United States, whole foods (unprocessed foods, not the store) are easier than ever to find, farmer’s market’s and regional chains of discount natural food stores are cropping up around the country. I encourage people to take advantage of their local farmer’s markets, where the produce you buy may have been harvested the same day you buy it. The more people patronize the vendors at their local farmer’s markets, the lower the prices will be. Check around at your local farmer’s markets and discount natural grocers, and you may be surprised at how much the prices have come down, now that the sales volumes have increased.
Also, in some cases the choices we make cost us far more in time and money than healthier options. This seems particularly true in our drinking choices, where many people drink soft drinks or sweetened juice drinks like water.
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Title: Improve your diet and health by drinking right
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