Why is it important to have a healthy diet?

A healthy diet can help you look and feel great. Don't follow the latest food fat: find out the truth about eating well.

The importance of a balanced diet

Diet is a particular pattern of eating and provides the correct amount of all nutrients without excess or deficiency to maintain health. There are many reasons why someone is interested in their diet, for example to improve health, lose weight or increase performance. All nutritional plans need to be designed to suit individual goals, differences and requirements.

It is also important that changes to a diet are long term changes because individuals with the highest weight fluctuations have the greatest health risk independent of obesity. Every diet should have health in mind because even if you’re thin you can be unhealthy. If you are overweight but physically fit you have a much lower risk of getting cardiovascular disease than if you are lean and unfit.

What will happen to me if I don’t eat healthily?

         
        - Eating unhealthy can lead to a variety of health problems such as: weight gain, diabetes, osteoarthritis or degenerative joint disease or sleep apnoea. Unhealthy eating eventually can cause permanent brain damage that can result in death.

      

    -  In most cases people who do not eat healthy end up becoming overweight. The long term effects of unhealthy eating are chronic diseases such as high blood pressure, heart disease, type 2 diabetes and certain cancers. All these diseases and conditions are associated with excessive consumption of saturated fat, sodium, cholesterol, and increased body weight.

When i'm healthy what effects do i have in my body?

- healthy body and healthy mind

- you will feel good

- be more active and have more energy in you

     just look at that fruit.