• Incorporate all five food groups in your daily diet i.e. cereals, pulses, milk products, vegetables and fats and sugars. However, use limited amounts of fats and sugars.
• Incorporate a lot of fiber rich foods in your diet such as fruits like guava, pineapple, oranges, apple, vegetables like ghia, raddish, carrot, whole pulses, bran mixture, oatmeal etc.
• Try to avoid excess fatty foods. Use more of roasted, baked, grilled and boiled foods.
• Eat regularly spaced and frequent meals i.e. atleast 5-6 meals in a day. Do not keep long spaces in between meals.
• Drink 8-10 glasses of water in a day.
• Limit the intake of aerated drinks; instead go for coconut water, jal jeera, mango panna, sattu in the summers.
• Include a lot of physical activity in your daily regime and exercise regularly to maintain optimum weight.