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Dietitians' Top 10 Diet Tips
Dietitians share their own strategies for eating healthfully despite life's challenges.
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Diet Tip No. 10: Count 4 Colors in Each Meal
Jennifer Reilly, RD, senior nutritionist for The Cancer Project in Washington, D.C., makes sure each meal her family eats naturally contains at least four different colors. "Skittles don't count!" Reilly jokes in an email interview.
"For example, dinner could be veggie chicken nuggets (gold), sweet potato fries (orange), cucumber slices (green) and cranberry juice (red)," Reilly says.
Elaine Magee, MPH, RD, is the "Recipe Doctor" for WebMD and the author of numerous books on nutrition and health. Her opinions and conclusions are her own.
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