Nutrition Tips for Models

Christina Dehart: This is Christina Dehart on exploremodeling.com. I am in New York City Uptown and I am about to go visit the nutrition twins, Tammy and Lyssie, they are nutrition and fitness experts here in New York City. I am going to get some of my questions answered. I got lots of questions about dieting and nutrition on the website - hey I am talking here. I'd like to be able to get some good information for you guys. No, I don't need a taxi, I am taping. Okay, so anyway, I am trying to get some good expert information to pass onto you guys for aspiring models and anyone interested in nutrition and fitness. So let's go talk. Everyone says, you need so many servings and so many foods, only veggies. Now I want to know exactly what you need for a day. Lyssie Lakatos: Okay, you need five servings of vegetables a day, but we always say, the more the merrier. Tammy Lakatos: Absolutely. Lyssie Lakatos: And that's because vegetables are so on calories, you can fill up on that. And that can be -- and they are loaded with disease prevention and nutrients and they'll prevent cancer and heart diseases, and diabetes, so you can be better. Tammy Lakatos: Right and the one thing you got to remind is though, although peas and potatoes are great for your health and they are really good for you and they have the same disease fighting properties as well, they are start to set the calories add up with those, so you don't, those are there, let me do with the other veggies. Christina Dehart: Okay, alright. Then exactly what is a serving. Lyssie Lakatos: So serving is if you have a weak ingredient like this -- Christina Dehart: Okay. Lyssie Lakatos: A cup. If you don't know a cup is, for most of it, it's about a size of our wrist. Christina Dehart: So a cup of this would be one serving. Lyssie Lakatos: However if you take steamed vegetable or like a cooked vegetable, then a half cup of the serving. Put that into your fist, into your palm like this. Christina Dehart: That's awful because I always when they said some of these and on many of that, I was look at how possible eat that much. But when I eat a salad, I probably have this much. Tammy Lakatos: Right. Lyssie Lakatos: Yes, that's a serving. Christina Dehart: Really? There you got some goodness. Lyssie Lakatos: I thought to put more quickly than you realize. Tammy Lakatos: So we're not encouraging them. Christina Dehart: Okay, that's good to know. There is another question I have. Then if I am not big on vegetables and I want to so replace all those vegetables with fruit. Tammy Lakatos: Well, fruits and vegetables are great. We love them both because it both have the disease fighting properties, and anti-aging property and we certainly don't like to discriminate, like thumbs up fruits and vegetables, but the veggies actually have a bonus advantage when it comes to weight loss and that's because if you eat so many of them and so of your calories. Christina Dehart: Okay. Lyssie Lakatos: So you really can't just replace those, you know, your veggies with fruit, also because each fruit and vegetable has thousands of nutrients and they are called fiber nutrients. So even an apple and orange, they have totally different nutrient, so you can't replace those nutrients, there's no way to get all the nutrients that you need if you were just eating fruits. Christina Dehart: Now what are the best vegetables and what are the best fruits? Lyssie Lakatos: We say, eat from the rainbow. It mean the rainbow colors like you see how we have all these bright colored rainbow, yellow, purple, green, red. Tammy Lakatos: Our afternoon snack right there, we do the red pepper. There are so many and that we love the purple cabbage too. But anything with a bright color, that's where the nutrients are.