More people than ever are interested in improving the quality of their diets, but often their best-made plans don’t come to fruition. Incorporating healthy habits may not be as complicated or as challenging as you might have originally thought. Instead of focusing on the minutia with your dietary intentions, instead, go bigger and broader. Here are a couple of wide-reaching steps that can lead to important changes.

1. Make healthy food convenient. When healthy foods, such as fruits and vegetables, are widely visible and available, when they are easy to order at restaurants, pick up, and consume, a greater number of people will choose them. Picture a bowl of fruit on the dining room table, bananas at the coffee shop checkout lane, and veggie sticks with hummus in a supermarket aisle.

2. Make healthy food attractive. No matter where healthy foods are displayed, if they look more attractive, people will choose them more often. Think of a bowl of beautifully arranged berries at the breakfast table, or a fresh and colorful salad bar.

When food choices are readily available and look appealing, it can be much easier to include these foods in our daily routine. Give it a try!

(Reprinted with permission from Environmental Nutrition, a monthly publication of Belvoir Media Group, LLC. 800-829-5384. www.EnvironmentalNutrition.com.)

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