Healthy eating tips

From Sally Poon, registered dietitian; Health Promotion Board, Singapore; and the Business Traveller team Given a choice always pick food that is grilled, baked or poached instead of deep-fried or stir-fried. When flying, take advantages of an airline’s special meal offerings and pre-order a low-fat, low-cholesterol or low-sugar meal. If a hotel room package includes des a welcome fruit plate, make use of it – health experts say you need two to three servings of fruit per day, with each serving g being equivalent to a mediummsize orange or apple, a banana, na, two small fruit such as kiwi or r plums, or one bowl of small fruit like grapes or strawberries. In the gym of upscale hotels, there are often free apples up for grabs. Avoid eating too much Chinese food that has a lot of sauce, which is high in fat and sodium.

When soy sauce is provided, use it in moderation. For pasta sauce, opt for tomato-bbased ones (such as Napolitana) over creamy ones (like carbonara),

which are loaded with ccream and butter. While eggs are high in protein, the yolks are highigh in cholesterol and you should eat no more than

four egg yolks per week. Other than greens, eat more colourful vegetables as ththe natural pigments in fruit and vegetables bring a hohost of benefits to the humhuman body, protecting us frofrom many common ailmeailments such as heart diseasdisease and cancer.