Food Groups: Starchy Foods

I thought I'd do a post educating both people with and without eating disorders, because I think that if people understood what a healthy balanced diet it, then there would be far less people suffering from eating disorders out there.A lot of people think "eating healthily" means eating fruits and vegetables etc., and cutting out fats, dairy and carbohydrates from our diet. But that couldn't be more wrong.

We need fats, fats and carbohydrates in order to live!

Our body cannot function properly without them, so why there is this whole image of certain food groups being 'bad' for you, I simply do not know.

So I thought I'd do a post on eating well. This is acording to a dietician too- I'm not just making things up!

I'm going to split this into 5 sperate posts, so here is part one...

1) Starchy Foods

(We don't call these carbohydrates, because other food contains carbohydrates as well. Starchy foods is more accurate.)

Why do we need starchy foods?

• Gives us slow releasing energy
• Keeps our blood sugar levels steady
  - This is VITAL for the whole body, especially the brain.
• Helps sleep
• Contains essential vitamins

How often should we eat them?

Shoud be a base for each of the 3 meals a day we eat.

Image via here.

Examples:

Bread, potato, rice, pasta, chips, couscous, gnocchi, oats, breakfast cereals...

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Look out for the rest of the food groups over the next few weeks!

Hope this is helpful,

Hannah xox