Diet

In nutrition diet is the sum of food consumed by a person or other organism. The word diet often implies the use of specific intake of nutrition for health or weight management reasons (with the two often being related)

Question: What is a healthy diet?

This is the one that helps maintain or improve overall health. A healthy diet provides the body with essential nutrition fluids, macronutrients, micronutrients and adequate calories.

Question: What consists of a healthy diet?

A healthy diet contains fruits, vegetables and whole grains and include little to no processed food and sweetened beverages. The requirements of a healthy diet can be met from a variety of plant-based and animal-based foods although non-animal source of Vitamin B12.

Question: Why should I have a healthy diet?

A healthy diet may improve or maintain optimal health agencies recommend that people maintain a normal weight by limiting consumption of energy dense foods and sugary drinks, eating plant based-foods, limiting consumption of red and processed meat and limiting alcohol intake.

Question: Does a healthy diet reduce disease risk?

There may be a relationship between lifestyle including food consumption and lowering the risk of cancer and other chronic diseases. A diet high in fruit and vegetables appears to decrease the risk of cardiovascular disease and death but not cancer.