DO'S AND DONT`S

• Eat about the same amount of food each day.
• Eat at about the same times each day.
• Take your medicines at the same times each day.
• Exercise at the same times each day.
• Every day, choose foods from these food groups: starches, vegetables, fruit, meat and meat substitutes, and milk and yogurt. How much of each depends on how many calories you need a day.
• Limit the amounts of fats and sweets you eat each day.

• Don't fry foods instead bake, boil, poach or sauté in a nonstick pan. Steam or microwave vegetables. Buy tuna packed in water, not oil
• Eat less high-fat red meat and more low-fat turkey and fish. Avoid organ meats
• Limit the use of condiments such as ketchup, mustard and salad dress ion--they're high in salt and can be high in sugar, too
• Rinse processed foods in water and, wherever possible, choose fresh foods over canned
• Limit your salt (sodium content)
• Read labels carefully. Soy sauce, brine and MSG, for example, contain a lot of sodium
• Don't select ready to eat and junk foods items available to you
• Don't smoke and stop alcohol consumption
• Don't skip meals and medicine times