AOL Diet & Fitness is featuring Prevention's 100 Smartest Diet Tips Ever, and it is by far one of the most creative and common sense approaches to achieving and maintaining a healthy weight -- and in hedging your bets with good nutrition against being diagnosed with diseases like cancer. The tips are from registered dietitians in private practice and respected in their field as heads of specialty practice groups for the American Dietetic Association. Whether you are someone who can only make a small practical change -- or -- looking for ideas on how to get more veggie-goodness into your day -- or -- easy tricks to cut calories -- or -- healthy low-cal dinner ideas if you don't feel like cooking -- there is something for everyone in the list of 100 smartest diet tips ever.
Some of the creative tips include:
- Use a salad plate instead of a dinner plate.
- Keep a food journal. The experts swear this really works wonders.
- Mix three different cans of beans and some diet Italian dressing. Eat this three-bean salad all week.
- Dance to music with your family in your home.
- Fat-free isn't always your best bet. The experts explain why.
- Skipping breakfast will leave you tired and craving naughty foods by midmorning. They give you a quick nutritious breakfast recipe.
- Make vegetables more attractive by avoiding mushy limp vegetables in the refrigerator crisper drawer with ready-to-go bags of frozen vegetables.
- Exercise. It curbs your appetite.
- Drink water frequently. They say it is not how much water you drink but how often. Dehydration slows your metabolism.
