Tips: How to Eat Healthier in the New Year

• Avoid overly processed foods.  One way to tell:  ingredients you can’t pronounce.
• Skip prepared foods with more than five ingredients.  They are likely to be overly processed as well.
• Don’t believe the health claims on food packages.  Do the research to find out what’s true and what’s only advertising hype.
• A cartoon on the package is a sure sign the product is being marketed to children.  You’re an adult!  You don’t need that stuff.
• Shop the outside perimeter of the store for healthy less-processed foods.  Look higher and lower on shelves to find products that usually are the same as the popular brands on the eye-level shelves.