What is the importance of
having a healthy and
nutritional diet?
Having a healthy and nutritional diet refers to a diet which has food items from all the major food groups.
There are a total of five major food groups,
Grains, Vegetables, Fruits, Dairy
and Meat or Meat Alternatives.
A healthy and nutritional diet strikes a balance amongst these five food groups, and gives the body the right amount of nutrients that it needs for overall good health. Eating a healthy and nutritional diet is not about having one good meal. It is more about creating or learning healthy eating habits and maintaining it over a long period of time.
This however, is not at all an easy thing to do.
For example, try and eat 6 to 11 servings of grains, 3 to 5 servings of vegetables, 2 to 4 servings of fruits, 2 to 3 servings of dairy products and 2 to 3 servings of meat or meat alternatives on a daily basis and you will actually realise how difficult it really is.
Having irregular eating habits or unhealthy diets can have small, mediocre to devastating side effects on the human body. the most common problem with western eating habits is that people eat three large meals a day and a lot of snacks in between to end those hunger cravings. Now most of these snacks are processed food. these contain a high amount of fats and chemical preservatives used to preserve food. So basically, it is unhealthy.