Holiday Health Tips - Nutrition

Dr. Tony here with Essentials of Life Chiropractic, kicking off our December festive series, Holiday Health Tips.

And the first week we're going to talk about here is nutrition, and I've got some math to help us with this one this week. Let's talk about how you want to organize your plate during the holiday season. So, imagine taking a plate, drawing a line right through it in half, and the bottom half of that plate is going to be plants. So, think fruits and vegetables. Plants go on the bottom of the plate. Then we divide that top half in half, so that's a quarter, so you have a half and two quarters, and one of those quarters is going to be your protein, and the other quarter is going to be your carbohydrates. So, half plants, fruits and vegetables, and then the top half, protein and carbohydrates. That's how you want to organize your plate this year. So, if you had a family gathering, this is how you do it.

Next math is keeping hydrated during the season. Drink half your body weight in ounces every single day. Very simple, take your body weight, divide it by two, and that's how many ounces of water you need every single day as a baseline. And lastly, let's talk about subtraction. Subtract out that stuff, sugar. I know this is the hard season for that, and it's all around you at all times, and realize that if you have one bad day, you can write it off, but watch out for all the added sugars this holiday season, because sugar will destroy your health and wellbeing.

Stay tuned next week as we continue our Health Tips series.

Be Well,

Dr. Tony