Try eating
wholemeal bread and pasta, fresh fruit and plenty of vegetables.
Brown vs. white
Wholemeal bread and pasta contain more nutrients and fibre than white alternatives, meaning they take longer for the body to digest and keep children feeling fuller for longer.
Not exact matches
Choose higher fibre starchy foods, such as oats, sweet potato,
wholemeal bread, wholewheat
pasta and brown rice
You should also try to eat cheese,
wholemeal bread,
pasta, tinned tuna
and salmon.
So try out brown rice,
wholemeal pasta and wholegrain
bread instead of white rice, white
pasta and white
bread.
Switching to brown rice, brown
pasta and wholemeal bread can also help to increase your fibre intake.
Your daily meals should consist of lean proteins such as fish
and white meat, vegetarian proteins such as beans
and pulses, complex carbohydrates such as brown rice, brown
pasta and wholemeal bread,
and as much salad
and vegetables as you like - a diet similar to the one Rhodri Morgan has switched to.Long hours
and not enough sleep has a pretty dreadful impact on your life, Liberal Democrat health spokesman Norman Lamb tells Total Politics, says he has «lots of stress
and not enough sleep».
Refined carbs (white
bread, white rice, white
pasta, refined grains
and vegetables) are generally much less healthy than their
wholemeal or wholegrain unrefined counterpart.
An example of a daily intake could be the following: 1 medium slice of
wholemeal or multi grain
bread, 1/2 cup
wholemeal pasta or whole rolled oats, 1/2 cup whole wheat cereal, 1/2 cup sweet potato (kumara)
and 3 whole grain crisp
breads.
Wholemeal flours,
breads and pastas should be eaten
and potatoes generally avoided, but they aren't too harmful in smaller amounts, on rare occasions.
Better food choices are
wholemeal bread, fruit, vegetables
and pasta with low GI.
I guess this all boils down to completely cutting out refined carbohydrates (i.e. white
bread, white
pasta, white rice)
and even limiting the use of wholegrain carbohydrates (i.e.
wholemeal bread, wholewheat
pasta, brown rice) as Brenda Davis appears to consider even these as not the best of the whole grains hierarchy (certainly better than most, of course, but perhaps should still be used sparingly in the diet).
Eat a variety of foods, especially
pasta, rice,
wholemeal bread,
and other whole - grain foods.
Choose wholegrain starchy foods where possible, such as brown rice,
wholemeal pasta and wholegrain
breads, which are higher in fibre than the white equivalents.