Eating Well and Staying Active While Traveling

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Busy travellers often do not have time for choosing healthy foods in crowded airports. Before traveling, it is important for individuals to consider better food options to maintain health and weight.

Learning about nutrition is a great plan to understand how to eat well while traveling extensively. Consuming most meals at home with fresh ingredients from local grocery stores is the best way to ensure you are getting enough vitamins and minerals. If you are planning a trip, then prepare and eat a filling meal as well as packing a bag of snacks like fresh fruits and vegetables before leaving home.

Finding healthy produce in airports and nearby restaurants is often difficult while traveling.

Research Food Courts and Restaurants In The Area

One of the fantastic things about the internet is how easy it is to find information about travel destinations. It is likely that the airport you will be going to has a website with important details concerning airport food courts and restaurants. After learning the name of restaurants in the airport, you can research to find food menus and get ideas of things you can eat before your flight.

Many restaurants nowadays also provide nutritional facts about what they sell with information on calories, carbs, proteins and vitamins. By understanding basic information about nutrition, you can plan an entire day’s menus to ensure that you’re eating properly on a trip.

 

 

Stay Hydrated with Fresh Water

After studying nutrition and ingredients, you will understand that particular types of cuisine are healthier with lower amounts of fat, sodium and sugar. A recipe with a generous serving of vegetables can actually be unhealthy when it contains heavy sauces or ingredients such as monosodium glutamate. In addition, travellers with food sensitivities may need to avoid dairy products or flavour enhancers.

Eating food slowly helps to prevent nausea, heartburn and/or indigestion. Be prepared to buy bottled water after passing through security to remain hydrated while flying. Alternatively, bring empty bottles to fill with water from fountains or faucets.

 

Bring Healthy Snacks Along on Your Journey

Staying hydrated with water helps you to avoid gastric distress while traveling. You can also avoid feeling nervous or jittery by not consuming caffeinated beverages such as coffee and tea. If possible, bring healthy snacks along in luggage or handbags to avoid eating fried snacks like potato chips.

Easy foods to pack are protein bars, dried fruit and unsalted nuts. If you are able to find nutritious packaged snacks while in an airport, then stock up for the next leg of the journey.

 

Engaging in Fitness Routines

You can also stay physically fit while traveling in airports by avoiding elevators and escalators. When walking up stairs, you can lift and carry your luggage to keep arms toned. If you are waiting for the next flight, then you could walk around the airport for exercise to burn extra calories.

Some airports such as Munich Airport and Fairmont Vancouver now have fitness centres for travellers to use treadmills and stationary bikes.

Another option for travellers is to find a secluded area of the airport and engage in some yoga poses or even some calisthenics.