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Staying Healthy!

NUTRITION TIP OF THE WEEK April 6, 2009:
Serve a Meal with Appeal Like a well-decorated room or a beautifully landscaped garden, an appealing meal follows basic principles of design.
Varieties of foods add color, flavor, texture, shape and temperature to meals and snacks.
At the same time, food variety means a wider spectrum of nutrients and phytonutrients.Here are some tips to add visual variety and appeal to your meals.
Contrast the colors on the plate. A plate full of beige food can appear dull.
Vary the flavors.
Different ingredients and seasonings in a dish or meal add layers of flavor.
Vary the texture. Crunchy foods contrast and complement soft foods.
Vary the shape. Round meatballs, round peas, round potatoes and round grapes may look boring if plated together. --Produced by ADA’s Public Relations Team (taken from the American Dietetic Association website eatright.org)

Healthy Eating!

Good food doesn’t have to take you into a spiral of guilt. ACU Dining Services offers many resources to help you enjoy great food while maintaining your weight and making healthy eating decisions. Nutrition intern, Melissa Horn has been giving healthy eating a fun twist all semester with Interactive Dining Table games, Healthy Eating Tours, and counseling in the World Famous Bean. Her newest project is Ask Melissa.

Do you have a nutrition question? Ask Melissa is an advice column that will run in The Optimist weekly. Let Melissa weigh in on your questions about healthy eating, healthy options at ACU, and other nutrition subjects.

E-mail your questions to askmelissa@acu.edu today!