Smart Weight Management and Dieting

Keeping at your most comfortable weight means focusing on a healthy lifestyle, combining healthy foods with plenty of regular exercise.

The best way to gobtain all the nutrients you need is to eat a variety of foods from these five groups every day:

• Plenty of vegetables, including different types and colours, and legumes/beans
• Fruit
• Whole grains such as breads, cereals, rice, pasta, noodles, polenta, couscous, oats, quinoa and barley
• Lean meats and poultry, fish, eggs, tofu, nuts and seeds, and legumes/beans
• Milk, yoghurt, cheese and/or their alternatives, mostly reduced fat
• Drink plenty of water
• Limit foods containing saturated fat, added sugars, added salt and alcohol.

A dietitian and nutritionist in Orange NSW, Natalia Knezivic provides practical and achievable advice for common nutrition problems.