Diet is very famous word associate with obesity or weight loss program. What is actually diet mean. Diet is the sum of the food consumed by an organism or group (Wikipedia). For you, diet is made up of what your eat. There are many different types of diets. Depend of what the purpose diet is. Some of these diets are high cholesterol diet, diet for heart disease, diabetic diet, cancer diet, healthy diet, gout diet, hypertension diet, weight loss diet.
Healthy diet
Friday, May 29, 2009
Diet for healthy people means eating healthy food. As the body needs calories, proteins, minerals to maintain healthy level of life, we need good nutrition intake, healthy diet.Here are some steps to do your healthy diet, to improve your quality of life, and lower your risk from illness.
- Enough calorie intake, not excess calories. The ideal recommended daily intake is 2000 calories, depend on the age, sex, height, weight and activity. You have to arrange your diet and your activity, so there will be balance between intake calories and energy you use.
- Eat more fruits, grains, vegetables, legumes, drink more water will ensure the carbohydrate, minerals, protein, fiber, vitamins your body need.
- Limit sugar and salt consumption, too many sugar consumption with less of physical activity will lead you to obesity diabetes.
- Limit meat and cholesterol sources consumption, cut down animal fat.
- Eat more fish and nuts, that rich of healthy saturated fat.
- Keep moderate portion of your food.
- Eat variety of food and try to get local and fresh food.
- Breakfast: one cup strawberries, one-half cup low fat cottage cheese with one tablespoon of sunflower seeds. One slice of whole grain toast.
- Midmorning: one small apple, eight walnuts, two ounces lean sliced chicken breast.
- Lunch: three cups salad consisting of dark green lettuce, broccoli, cauliflower and tomatoes with two teaspoons of walnut oil, two ounce organic beef patty served on a whole grain roll.
- Mid afternoon: six ounces of tofu, one and one-half cups carrot sticks, one tablespoon of pumpkin seeds.
- Dinner: one-half cup whole wheat spaghetti with one-forth cup organic marinara sauce and two ounces ground turkey. Two cups cooked green vegetables such as asparagus, spinach or broccoli drizzled with two teaspoons flax oil.
- Evening Snack: six whole grain crackers with one ounce sliced cheese and one small apple.
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