HEALTHY DIET:
A healthy diet is a diet which helps us to maintain or to improve overall health. A healthy diet contains essential nutrition like: fluid,calories,macronutrients and micronutrients which provides to the body.
Healthy diet is not a complicated diet it is a very simple diet and contains mostly fruits, vegetables, and whole grains. Healthy diet can be taken from a variety of animals and plant based food.
Animal based food:
Meat, milk, egg, fish, pork, beef, chicken, sea food (crab, oysters, lobsters ), cheese, and yogurt
Plant based food:
- Fruits – apples, mangoes, oranges, banana, guava, grapes, watermelon
- Root – potato, carrot, radish, turnip, beet root
- Seeds – maize, nuts, wheat, rice, almonds
- Leaves – spinach, coriander, lettuce, kale, cabbage
What is nutrients ?
Nutrients is a substance that is needed to all living thing to stay alive and help it to grow.
What is nutrition ?
Nutrition is a food that you eat and how it affects your overall health. The interaction of nutrients and substances in food in order to maintenance of growth, health, disease and reproduction is interpreted by nutrition.
Nutrition include:
- Food intake
- Absorption
- Assimilation
- Biosynthesis
- Catabolism
- Excretion
Benefits of healthy diet:
1) Reduce risk of heart disease
2) Protect against certain types of cancer
3) Protect from non communicable disease such as
Obesity, diabetes, cardiovascular disease
4) Maintain adequate body weight
5) Reduce blood cholesterol level
6) Maintain blood pressure and blood sugar level
Nutrients helps in :
1) dietary fibre found in vegetables helps in reducing cholesterol level and lower the risk of heart disease. Fibre is needed for the proper bowel function and helps to reduce constipation.
2) vitamin A makes your eyes and skin healthy and helps to fight against infection.
3) vitamin C helps in healing cuts and wounds. And makes teeth and gun healthy.
4) frolic acid helps in formation of red blood cells.
5) potassium helps to Maintain healthy blood pressure
Unhealthy diet:
Unhealthy diet is a major risk factor of chronic disease like cancer, diabetes. Poor diet also includes under or over eating.
Signs of a poor diet :
- Diarrhoea
- Lack of appetites
- Brittle and dry hair
- Unexpected fatigue
- Mouth problem
- Spoon shaped nails
- Change in bowel habits
- Mental health issues
- Low immunity
Sign of a poor health :
- Tearing sensation
- Crushing chest pain
- Sweating
- Swelling
- Dizziness
- Tingling in the arm and legg
- Numbness
Side effects of not eating enough :
- Low energy level
- Constant hunger
- Sleeping problem
- Feeling cold all the time
- Hair loss
- Inability to get pregnant
- Constipation
- Anxiety
How poor diet affects our body:
Poor nutrition contribute towards stress, tiredness, capacity to work, risk of developing some illness, tooth decay, high blood pressure etc…
Take healthy and stay healthy
