Healthy Resolution

One week into the new year, have you given up on your resolutions?

Are you ready for a new one?

From all the reading on health that I do, the one common denominator is that people who eat more vegetables are healthier.

It doesn't matter if the vegetables are raw, cooked, defrosted, organic, tossed in butter -- as long as they are vegetables.

So a great healthy resolution for this year is to make sure that half the food on your plate at each meal is vegetables. (You can use fruit instead of vegetables at breakfast if you like, but juice does not count.)

This does not have to be a lot of work. Keep some bags of mixed vegetables in the freezer and when you come home with take-out, or order delivery, throw the vegetables in the microwave or steamer. Toss them in butter or olive oil, season with salt and pepper, and you've got half your meal done. And you can feel good about it.

Don't worry if your family won't eat the vegetables. Do this for you.

Ideally you'd eat a variety of vegetables throughout the week - cooked greens, cabbage family, orange vegetables like carrots and squash, root vegetables -- but even if you just stick to broccoli and carrots, you'll go far.

Just remember, every time you eat, make half of what you put in your mouth vegetables.

It will be the healthiest habit you ever develop.