DO'S AND DONT`S

� Eat about the same amount of food each day.
� Eat at about the same times each day.
� Take your medicines at the same times each day.
� Exercise at the same times each day.
� Every day, choose foods from these food groups: starches, vegetables, fruit, meat and meat substitutes, and milk and yogurt. How much of each depends on how many calories you need a day.
� Limit the amounts of fats and sweets you eat each day.

� Don't fry foods instead bake, boil, poach or saut� in a nonstick pan. Steam or microwave vegetables. Buy tuna packed in water, not oil
� Eat less high-fat red meat and more low-fat turkey and fish. Avoid organ meats
� Limit the use of condiments such as ketchup, mustard and salad dress ion--they're high in salt and can be high in sugar, too
� Rinse processed foods in water and, wherever possible, choose fresh foods over canned
� Limit your salt (sodium content)
� Read labels carefully. Soy sauce, brine and MSG, for example, contain a lot of sodium
� Don't select ready to eat and junk foods items available to you
� Don't smoke and stop alcohol consumption
� Don't skip meals and medicine times