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7 Healthy Ingredients Your Diet Needs

You don't need to radically change your lifestyle or pop a small army of supplements to get healthy. Just add these 7 ingredients to your diet

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If I read another article telling me to drop the Twinkie and replace it with a carrot stick, I'm going to hurl my cream-filled cakes at the computer screen.

I know I should pick hummus over doughnuts and pita chips over potato chips. But as anyone who's ever tried to watch their diet knows, it's not always so easy. While staying healthy and trimming some fat is a noble goal, who wants to subscribe to a strict veggie-chomping and gym-rat lifestyle?

Not I.

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Of course, I know the secret to six-pack abs isn't in a pill or "30-second" workout (although that would be amazing). But there's got to be a happy medium between the quick fixes and the no-sugar, no-carbs, no-fun plan.

That's why I asked dietitians, fitness gurus, and wellness experts for their advice on the small changes that add up to big results. They told me that adding these 7 healthy ingredients into my diet will get me the maximum health payoff for the minimum effort. Now we're talking.

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By Sharon J. Yi

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This is great. Thank you!

by patricia89 Thursday, February 9, 2012 at 02:35AM Report as inappropriate

nice

by cielona_boco Thursday, February 2, 2012 at 09:06PM Report as inappropriate

Very informative article! Great tips as always!

by MissXu Thursday, February 2, 2012 at 01:51PM Report as inappropriate

I've bookmarked this one! Pineapple, spices, vinegar, cinnamon, good bacteria . . . here I come.

by alictasia Wednesday, February 1, 2012 at 06:24PM Report as inappropriate

Very good tips! I love spicy foods, and sometimes I munch on pineapple after a meal, now I'll to it more often. And the cinnamon on coffee. I'm not sure about about the vinegar thing- I hardly ever have room for desert.

by msbrown822 Wednesday, February 1, 2012 at 01:34PM Report as inappropriate