March 2011 Nutrition Challenge

It’s time for the monthly nutrition challenge … here’s the concept, in case it’s your first one:

For a week out of every month, we’ll announce a nutrition ‘challenge’. Over the next six months, we’ll touch on a ‘pilar’ of good eating for a week out of every month … and if you take every challenge, after six months, you’ll have build a foundation of healthy eating.

Here are the last two month’s challenges in case you missed them:

January 2011 Nutrition Challenge

February 2011 Nutrition Challenge

And for this month:

Limit your intake of refined carbohydrate to one serving per day

Notes:

• The definition of refined carbohydrate, from about.com: “Refined carbohydrates are produced when whole plants which are high in carbohydrates are processed in a way to strip out everything but the highly digestible carbohydrate (starch or sugar).”

• Refined carbohydrates include: Anything we call “sugar” including granulated sugar and high fructose corn syrup; grains that have been made “white” by stripping the germ and/or bran from the grain, including white flour, white rice, white pasta, and couscous; anything called “starch” – corn starch, modified food starch, etc.’; grains that have been turned into flakes, puffs, shreds, etc.

Good luck!

Forest

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