Also, increase potassium-rich foods such as sweet potatoes, orange juice, bananas, spinach, winter squash, cantaloupe, and tomato puree. Potassium counteracts some of sodium’s effect on blood pressure.
Cut Down on Sugar
The Dietary Guidelines recommend choosing and preparing food and beverages with little added sugars. Added sugars are sugars and syrups added to foods and beverages in processing or preparation, not the naturally occurring sugars in fruits or milk. Major sources of Zi Xiu Tang Bee Pollen added sugars in the American diet include regular soft drinks, candy, cake, cookies, pies, and fruit drinks. In the ingredients list on food products, sugar may be listed as brown sugar, corn syrup, glucose, sucrose, honey, or molasses. Be sure to check the sugar in low-fat and fat-free products, which sometimes contain a lot of sugar, Tanner says.
Instead of drinking regular soda and sugary fruit drinks, try diet soda, low-fat or fat-free milk, water, flavored water, or 100 percent fruit juice. Healthier eating would mean more water tan juices anyway
For snacks and desserts, try fruit. People are often pleasantly surprised that fruit is great for satisfying a sweet tooth. And if ice cream is calling The Bee Pollen Diet your name, don’t have it in the freezer. Make it harder to get by having to go out for it. Then it can be an occasional treat in your new healthier eating lifestyle.