Is one of your top goals to stay healthy or manage a chronic disease? If so, here are some tips that can help prevent, identify, and/or manage serious conditions like diabetes, heart disease, and cancer.

Nutrition choices made easy!
- Choose cuts of meat from the ’loin’. Try sirloin & tenderloin
- Sauté veggies in chicken broth rather than butter or margarine
- Read cereal box labels for 100% essential vitamins & minerals
- Select foods with less than 30% of calories from fat

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I read diet and nutrition tips and other health matters. There are two things I’ve learned from Colette Bouchez critique from WebMD Weight Loss Clinic. These are one of the most common nutrition mistakes. First, mistake on BEING CONFUSE ABOUT CARBOHYDRATES. It says that- a national fascination with low-carbohydrate diets has many Americans eliminating carbohydrates from their eating plans in record "grams." But before you reconstruct your personal nutrition pyramid, there’s something you should know.

"There are carbohydrates that are very, very good, and some that are less good, but your brain and body must have some carbohydrates every day."

Moreover, because complex carbohydrates (those rich in whole grains and fiber) keep you feeling full longer, they also help you to eat less — and lose more! But eliminating this important food group isn’t our only carb-related mistake. According to dietician Rachel Brandeis, MS, RD, just as troublesome is the belief that all no-carb or low-carb foods are healthy, or that you can eat them in any amount.

"Much like the low-fat diet craze, where everyone thought that if a meal had no fat, it had no calories, similarly people have come to believe that if it has low carbs you can eat as much as you want and not gain weight," says Brandeis. "And that is simply not true." Eat enough of anything, she says, and you’ll gain weight.

The solution: Experts say you should never cut any food group out of your diet — including carbohydrates. Equally important, says Heller, is to learn which carbohydrates give you the biggest bang for your nutritional buck.

"It’s a lot harder to run amuck when you are including carbohydrates like fresh fruits and vegetables and whole grains in your diet.”

Second, is mistake on NOT EATING ENOUGH - - or OFTEN ENOUGH. While overeating and undereating may seem like contradictory nutrition mistakes, they are related. Well, if you don’t eat at regular intervals throughout the day, you risk disrupting your blood sugar and insulin levels, which in the end can promote fat storage and lower your metabolism — both of which lead to weight gain.

The solution: Eat something every four hours and never let yourself "starve" from one meal to the next.