5 Tips—and Dishes—to Get Your New Year Off to a Healthy Start

All the accompanying recipes are easy to make with everyday ingredients. So no excuses!

Making masala with chickpeas instead of chicken is an easy way to get more fiber in your diet. Gretchen McKay/Pittsburgh Post-Gazette/TNS

A new year is often challenging. Despite knowing we should throw out old, bad habits along with the New Year’s Eve party favors, change is hard.

Many of us eat more than we should. Yet nothing changes for the better—especially in terms of health—when we keep eating those bad-for-us-but-tasty processed junk foods that are high in sugar, salt, and fat and low in nutrients.