How Healthy Diet Influences Your Health?
A healthy diet influences your health and yes it is all for the good. A healthy diet includes having well balanced meals and regular exercise.
One person’s food may be another person’s poison. This is why it is essential to consult a doctor or a nutritionist to find the diet which suits your body the best. Other than outward physical appearance, we all have a unique biochemistry and genetics. We process foods and utilize nutrients differently, so if we follow a diet based on our specific nutritional type, we can resolve most health disorders and remain healthy.
The food you eat contains many types of nutrients and fiber. These are all required for many vital processes in your body.
Proximate Composition of Food
Any food can be divided into the following categories according to its proximate composition:
Carbohydrates – It is the most readily available source of energy in our body and is essential for most metabolic pathways.
Protein – Is another source of energy and essential for the growth and repair as it forms all the muscles and tissues in our body.
Fat – It gives us the most amount of energy but is not easily broken down. Fats also helps to transport essential vitamins around the body, keeps the body warm and act as a shock absorber.
Vitamins and minerals – There is a variety of vitamins and minerals which all have important functions in the body even though they are required in very small amounts. For example, iron is needed in the blood to bind oxygen and transport it throughout the body, calcium and vitamin D are essential to keep our bones healthy, vitamin C is important for clotting of blood and vitamin A keeps your eyes healthy.
Fiber – It is essential for regular bowel movements of the digestive tract and controls our cholesterol and blood sugar levels.
A single food does not contain all the nutrients and fiber that you need, so it’s important to eat a range of foods. So eating a well balanced healthy diet will ensure that your body gets all it needs to stay healthy.
What to Eat and What Not to Eat
For a healthy diet you should have more of fruit and vegetables, lean meat high – fiber foods like wholegrain (or brown) bread or rice, beans and less of fatty meat products like sausages, salami. Crisps, ready meals, sauces, burgers, sausages, sweets, chocolate, cakes, cream and butter should also be avoided.
A diet can have a long-term impact on health. It has also been seen that eating a healthy diet can reduce your risk of illnesses and diseases such as diabetes, stroke, obesity, heart disease, osteoporosis and even some types of cancer. Research has shown that diet also effects mental health. Research has shown that children who carry genes very closely related to obesity can retard its effects by following a low energy diet (i.e. avoiding too many carbohydrates and fats).
There are so many ways in which a healthy diet influences our health beneficially. So we should all have a healthy diet and remain fit.
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