Limit your intake of saturated and unhealthy fats: These fats can raise your cholesterol levels.
Lean meats are a healthy choice and contain essential vitamins and minerals. Stay away from meats marbled with fat. That’s not juice that’s dripping off them, it’s fat. Straight from the lips to the hips and into the blood stream. You don’t want that.
Your diet – whether predominantly plant-based with healthy greens, nuts and other lean proteins (good), or laden with saturated fat, processed foods and sugars (not so good) – can impact mood and anxiety levels. So, too, can other things we put in our body to get by in the moment, from tobacco and alcohol to recreational drugs. Better to avoid the feel-good momentary fixes, Klitzman says, and spare yourself the crash later.
A small knob of butter or light drizzle of oil on veggies isn’t just delicious, but can be health helpful, too. “Some nutrients, such as vitamins A, D, E and K (found in green vegetables and sweet potatoes) are fat soluble so a smidgen of fat, such as olive oil, helps with nutrient absorption,” says Ian Marber, a leading independent nutrition therapist (ianmarber.com).
