Having good food in your day-to-day routine is extremely essential for a healthy body and life. But the question is why you should go with the best food for your health?
A good diet protects you from many chronic non-communicable diseases like diabetes, cancer, heart disease, etc. A healthy diet comes from a variety of foods. But above all, it requires consuming less salt, saturated sugars, and well-produced trans-fats.
A healthy diet comes to you by mixing different foods, which we recommend you to include in the list below.
- Staples such as grains (wheat, rice, corn, barley, or rye) or starchy
- Foods from animal sources (meat, fish, eggs, and milk).
- Tubers or roots source foods (potatoes, yams, taro, or cassava).
- Legumes (lentils and beans).
- Fruits and vegetables.
Benefit of healthy foods
The key to a healthy body depends on what you don’t eat. Some recommendations by WHO for a healthy diet, the benefits of which are detailed below.
Eat less fat
Fat gives energy to our body but excessive fat intake and the especially wrong type of fat consumption can lead to dangerous diseases like increased risk of heart disease and stroke.
You should use vegetable oils (olive, soy, sunflower, or corn oils) instead of saturated fats and animal fats to get the best type of fat your body needs.
To avoid unhealthy weight gain, total fat consumption should not exceed 30% of a person’s total energy consumption.
Eat plenty of vegetables and fruits
Vegetables are important sources of vitamins, fiber, minerals, plant proteins, and antioxidants. People with a diet rich in vegetables and fruits have a significantly reduced risk of obesity, heart disease, stroke, diabetes, and some types of cancer.
Breastfeed infants and young children
Starting a healthy diet from the time the baby is born – is of paramount importance to the child’s development that brings long-term health benefits to your baby, such as reducing the risk of obesity, and preventing non-communicable diseases later in life develops.
The baby should be breastfed from birth till 6 months which is important for the child’s mental, physical, and strength. When the baby is 6 months old, he should start with a variety of safe and nutritious complementary foods. But till 2 years the child should continue to be breastfed.
Limit intake of sugars
Sugar is important for a healthy body which represents less than 10% of your total energy intake but I would recommend reducing it by 5% so that you can get more benefits.
You should consume fresh fruits instead of external sweet snacks (sweet snacks like cookies, cakes, and chocolates) which keep your sugar level in check. And you should reduce or give up your intake of soft drinks, sodas, and other high-sugar drinks (fruit juices, cordials and syrups, flavored milk, and yogurt drinks).
Reduce salt intake:
Do you know that consuming too much name predisposes you to high blood pressure? Consuming less salt actually lowers your risk of heart disease and stroke. You should reduce the intake of salt as much as possible, otherwise, the disease is close to you.
Final Verdict
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