The Importance of a healthy diet
The Importance of a healthy diet
Diet is a particular pattern of eating and a balanced diet provides the correct amount of all nutrients without excess or deficiency to maintain health. There are many reasons why someone is interested in their diet, for example to improve health, lose weight or increase performance. All nutritional plans need to be designed to suit individual goals, differences and requirements and so there is no one diet that will suit everyone.
It is important that changes to a diet are long term changes because individuals with the highest weight fluctuations have the greatest health risk independent of obesity (1). Every diet should have health in mind because even if you’re thin you can be unhealthy. If you are overweight but physically fit you have a much lower risk of getting cardiovascular disease than if you are lean and unfit (2).
The role of the diet