It's Nutrition Month across the country and Alberta Health Services wants us to eat right.

Kristy Leavitt is a Registered Dietician with AHS and says the way to start eating right is to look for food you'll actually find in nature.

"Things like vegetables, fruit, eggs, meat, beans, chickpeas, nuts, milk, yogurt etc. Those tend to be things that look how they appear in nature or pretty darn close. Where things like sugary cereals, chips, candy, soda. You know this is something that's not natural, it's man made."

However, she says most of us tend to equate eating healthy with being on a "diet."

But Leavitt says "diet" can be a dirty word and one shouldn't have anything to do with the other.

"Really the very nature of 'diet' is something that is kind of a short term temporary fix. Typically having someone making perhaps unrealistic or unsustainable changes. So really the question someone should ask themselves is this something I can live with for the rest of my life?"

Leavitt says you're best bet for healthy eating over the long term is to simply change one meal at a time until you're eating healthier at every meal.

Leavitt says for help getting strated go to:

ahs.ca/nutritionmonth & healthyeatingstartshere.ca

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