Healthy Diet : Need

More and more studies about foods, diets are going on and their findings are suggestive that certain diets and foods either prevent or cause certain diseases. Nor only that evidence is also accumulating to suggest that certain diets or foods also have immediate therapeutic benefit in certain situations.
In addition, as people are getting more and more information about foods, about value of proper nutrition to stay fit, prevent disease or heal some ailments, they are becoming more and more anxious.

The result is that more and more people have started realizing the role of food they eat in keeping their health. Though many are aware of this fact, in reality very few really give a serious thought or spend time on designing their diet which will promote their health.

Culprits are many like fast track life with all the comforts of modern life leading to physical inactivity, reliance on readily available precooked canned / packed food, mushrooming of fast food joints with their display of attractive mouth watering dishes.

In addition they are also getting confused because of bombardment of information and by sometime conflicting opinions encountered.

In this situation any health conscious individual will have certain questions regarding his/her diet and health.

1. What is healthy diet?
2. What are the nutrients I require to stay healthy?
3. How much quantities of these nutrients do I require?
4. From which food will I get these nutrients ?
5. What the foods which will provide me sufficient quantities of nutrients?
6. How much nutrients are present in any individual food items?
7. To get greatest of benefit from my daily diet, how do I know what to eat and in what quantities?
8. How do I know what foods to avoid?
9. How do I know what food items to combine to get maximum benefit of from them?

f he gets the answers to these questions, it will definitely enable him to make his own choices of healthy food.

An attempt is made here just to answer these questions in scientific way so as to enable people to select correct food items, plan their daily meal, include the items they needed most.

Mens Sana In Corpore Sano

In his answer to the question of what people should desire in life, Roman poet Juvenal wrote this now famous Latin words in his Satire X .

Original connotation of his phrase is that health of mind and body is good in itself and something to be rightly desired, as opposed to beauty, wealth or power.

Over the time his phrase has come to mean and often translated as
"A sound mind in a sound body."

As Human body is a vehicle for human soul, the health of human mind and soul depends on health of his body. Only a healthy body will harbor healthy mind and soul.

Man gets only one life. He too gets only one body. The life must be enjoyed and to enjoy life human needs a healthy mind. One has to desire for healthy body and healthy mind. Body has to be cared and provided for.

Just as human mind, human body is very remarkable. It adapts to any situation be it favorable or adverse. But then the human body is like any machine which requires high value energy to go on. Like any machine living body too is subject to its wear and tear. It too needs repair. To build itself, to get energy to move, to provide for wear and tear, to get itself repaired body needs its quota of high value fuel. The fuel of human body is nutrients which must be provided through daily food.

Just as any machine will not work efficiently without its required fuel, human body too will fail to work efficiently without its nutrients.
Even though body has great adaptability to adverse situations, without its nutrients it too will not work efficiently and ultimately will stop if quality nutrients are not provided to generate energy.

So the bottom line is that to stay fit, to stay dynamic, to provide for body’s wear / tear/ repair one must have proper nutrients. Since one gets these nutrients only from the food, the choice of ones food matters most in staying healthy and fit.