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.
- What is healthy diet?
- What are the nutrients I require to stay healthy?
- How much quantities of these nutrients do I require?
- From which food will I get these nutrients ?
- What the foods which will provide me sufficient quantities of nutrients?
- How much nutrients are present in any individual food items?
- To get greatest of benefit from my daily diet, how do I know what to eat and in what quantities?
- How do I know what foods to avoid?
- 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.
