How healthy eating has changed: 10 ways to eat better in 2018
From probiotics to proteins and the rebirth of vegetables, from the microbiome to Buffalo cauliflower, eating healthily today is not about counting calories and avoiding fats, it’s more about lifestyle and being informed about your food
Healthy isn’t what it used to be. I don’t mean that in the whiplash-inducing way all the clickbait headlines out there would have you think. Despite the seeming back and forth, there is remarkable consistency in core dietary advice. You could comfortably hang your resolution hat on two of the biggest: eat more vegetables and less added sugar.
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But there have been exciting shifts in what it means to eat well, shaped by both modern culinary style and nutritional science. They’ve been building for years but now have a definite form. This is a change that is real, compelling and refreshing.
Healthy eating has emerged rebranded from a stodgy, finger-wagging “should” to a cool, on-trend “want to.” Harnessing the momentum of this fashionable, new healthy living could re-energise your efforts to eat better in the new year and beyond, inspiring a way of eating that is good for you with – yes, more vegetables and less sugar – but also a fresh, updated perspective, one that is as hip and appealing as it is good for you. Here are 10 facets of what’s healthy now and how to make the most of them.
A way of life
The notion of dieting, with its obsessive calorie counting, weighing and measuring is out, and “lifestyling,” with a focus on overall eating patterns and whole-life wellness, is in. Even long-time diet programmes such as Weight Watchers have heeded the call with their new Freestyle programme. Crash diets haven’t totally disappeared – they have just been renamed detoxes and cleanses, and I recommend avoiding them – but the overall shift to healthy as a way of life has arrived and is a welcome bandwagon worth jumping on.