Healthy Diet

A healthy diet is one that helps to maintain or improve overall health.

in this app A healthy diet provides the body with essential nutrition: fluid, adequate essential amino acids from protein,essential fatty acids, vitamins, minerals, and adequate calories. The requirements for a healthy diet can be met from a variety of plant-based and animal-based foods. A healthy diet supports energy needs and provides for human nutrition without exposure to toxicity or excessive weight gain from consuming more than the body requires. Where lack of calories is not an issue, a properly balanced diet (in addition to exercise) is also thought to be important for lowering health risks, such as obesity, heart disease, type 2 diabetes, hypertension and cancer.

The idea of dietary therapy (using dietary choices to maintain health and improve poor health) is quite old and thus has both modern scientific forms (medical nutrition therapy) and prescientific forms (such as dietary therapy in traditional Chinese medicine).

in this app you get more tips for Healthy Diet Of which :

- Maintain a healthy weight by eating roughly the same number of calories that your body is using.
- Limit intake of fats, and prefer unsaturated fats to saturated fats and trans fats.
- Increase consumption of plant foods, particularly fruits, vegetables, legumes, whole grains and nuts.
- Limit the intake of sugar. A 2003 report recommends less than 10% of calorie intake from simple sugars.
- Limit salt / sodium consumption from all sources and ensure that salt is iodized.

Other recommendations include:

Consuming essential micronutrients such as vitamins and certain minerals.
Avoiding directly poisonous (e.g. heavy metals) and carcinogenic (e.g. benzene) substances.
Avoiding foods contaminated by human pathogens (e.g. E. coli, tapeworm eggs).

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