Food and Diet: Proper Guidelines for Healthy Living

Introduction:                                                                                                

Any substance consisting essentially of protein, carbohydrate, fat, and other nutrients used in the body of an organism to sustain growth and vital processes and to furnish energy.

Diet refers to the total amount of food consumed by the individuals, the combination of foods typically eaten by a specific group of people or other organisms is known as the diet.

Types of food, diet:

Food:

Dairy products:

Dairy foods are products such as milk, yoghurt and cheese. Most dairy foods come from cow's milk. Other sources of dairy foods can be the milk of sheep, goats and other animals. Dairy foods are rich in many essential vitamins and minerals.

Vegetables:

A vegetable is the edible portion of a plant. Vegetables are usually grouped according to the portion of the plant that is eaten such as leaves (lettuce), stem (celery), roots (carrot), tubers (potato), bulbs (onion) and flowers (broccoli). A fruit is the mature ovary of a plant.

Fruits:

a fruit is the fleshy or dry ripened ovary of a flowering plant, enclosing the seed or seeds. Apricots, bananas, and grapes, as well as bean pods, corn grains, tomatoes, cucumbers, and (in their shells) acorns and almonds, are all technically fruits.

Meat:

the flesh or other edible parts of animals (usually domesticated cattle, swine, and sheep) used for food, including not only the muscles and fat but also the tendons and ligaments.

Diet:

Mediterranean diet:

The Mediterranean diet is an excellent diet that has been thoroughly studied. It’s particularly effective for heart disease prevention. It emphasizes foods that were commonly eaten around the Mediterranean region during the 20th century and earlier. As such, it includes plenty of vegetables, fruits, fish, poultry, whole grains, legumes, dairy products, and extra virgin olive oil.

Paleo diet:

The paleo diet is a very popular diet that is effective for weight loss and general health improvement. It’s currently the world’s most popular diet. It centers on unprocessed foods believed to resemble those available to some of humanity’s paleolithic ancestors.

Vegan diet:

one of the most popular diets that you will come across is vegan diet. As the name says it all, it is a type of vegetarian diet. In fact, it is an extreme level of vegetarian diet. Not just fish and meat, all the animal products like milk and milk products, and eggs are also excluded in this diet.

Ketogenic Diet:

One of the crash diets for rapid weight loss is low-carbohydrate and high-fat keto diet. A ketogenic diet comprises low-carbohydrates, moderate-proteins and high-fat divided in certain ratios in the meal. Ketogenic diet is one of the types of diet that is majorly focused on weight loss. It is also known to manage medical conditions like epilepsy.

Conclusion:

A well-balanced diet is necessary for good health and nutrition. It guards against heart disease, diabetes, and cancer, as well as other noncommunicable illnesses. A healthy diet should include a variety of foods and a reduction in salt, carbs, saturated fats, and trans fats from industrial sources. A healthy diet is essential for good health and nutrition. It protects you against many chronic noncommunicable diseases, such as heart disease, diabetes and cancer. Eating a variety of foods and consuming less salt, sugars and saturated and industrially-produced trans-fats, are essential for healthy diet.

 

Let food be thy medicine, thy medicine shall be thy food.

When diet is wrong, medicine is of no use.