"Good Food"

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A good diet is always within reach. But making the switch to healthy eating might seem difficult at first. When we decide to eat healthy to shed unhealthy pounds; when blood test results say we have diabetes, and we turn to healthy sugars to balance our blood sugar levels; or when we cut out the sweets and unhealthy salts and fats, we know good eating is within our reach. 

Why then is it that many don't stick to the diet program? True, it's got to do with will power. It's also about finding tasty, familiar substitutes. But effective change must be natural. Some experts tell us to sip on diet pop, eat nicely-packaged diet foods, and pop diet pills - it's really no surprise when people fall off their diet plans while finding "good food." 

You know whether it's really good or not when it doesn't keep you anxiously watching the scale. We are swamped with numbers, terms and expensive programs. There are catchy-named dieting plans that sometimes confuse our efforts when we could focus and cut out unhealthy sugars completely for example. And for substitutes, there are always healthy alternatives you may creatively put together based on available recipes.  

That's when we're defining good food with health improvement in mind. That's when we are saying "good" with a little more meaning. Good diet must be as immunity-boosting, cleansing and nutritious as it should taste good.