Healthy eating consists of eating the types and quantities
of foods that offer an ideal balance between nutrition and energy to support keep
your heart beating, your brain active, and your muscles working. Nutrients also
help build and strengthen bones, muscles, and tendons and also regulate body
processes, such as blood pressure. Basically it helps you to grow accordingly.
A balanced diet - or a good diet - means consuming from all
the different good groups in the right proportion. This includes choosing foods
with more of the health-promoting vitamins and minerals and less of the
detrimental cholesterol, sugar, fat and sodium.
Good nutrition can lower your risk of developing any chronic
diseases. For example, eating more fruit
and vegetables can actually help you to lower blood pressure and may lower your
risk of certain types of cancer. Eating less saturated fat may also lower your
risk of heart disease.
Healthy eating can also help people that already have some
types of disease or illness such as diabetes, high cholesterol and blood
pressure. And, of course, improving your
eating habits will contribute to you achieving and maintaining a healthy
weight.
Nutritionists say there are five main food groups which are whole
grains, fruit and vegetables, protein, diary, and fat & sugar. Achieving healthy
eating habits is easy, all you must do is fulfill your body's needs
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