It's March 18th and we are more than halfway through "National Nutrition Month", so hopefully, you all are working hard on making some imporant changes in your diet and making a conscious effort to eat at least five servings of fruits and veggies daily.

Well, to kick it into over-drive: Try to eat five different colors of fruits and veggies daily.

It is important to eat a colorful palate since disease fighting antioxidants also give foods their brilliant color. The wider the color palate you eat, the greater the spectrum of antioxidants, vitamins, and minerals you will be eating.

Please note, that downing just goji berries, drinking pomegranate juice or adding some magic powder to your smoothie is really not enough to be considered healthy eating.

As an example of how you can easily add "five colors" into your meals;

Breakfast: Blue — Throw a half of cup of fresh blueberries onto your morning oatmeal or favorite cereal. (I should say healthy cereal, Captain Crunch doesn't count, sorry.)

Snack: Yellow — Eat a banana or slice up a mango, peach or nectarine.

Lunch: Green — A healthy spinach salad can cover all shades of green or some steamed broccoli over brown rice. 

Dinner: Orange — Roasted yams has the color orange covered and sweet potatoes have amazing health benefits too.

Dessert: Red — Strawberries, Cherries, Apples and Raspberries sliced or whole make a tasty, sweet and satisfying dessert.

It is way easiler than you may think to add a variety of color to your daily diet and eat healthier.