concept of
diet
Your diet
is, quite simply, what you eat. There are two aspects to
your diet: what foods you eat and how much of them you
eat. To lose weight or maintain a healthy weight, you
need to pay attention to both factors. If you eat all the
right foods but they are in quantities that are too
large, you will take in too many calories and will gain
weight. If you eat the right amount of calories but you
get them from only one food group, you will lack
essential nutrients which may cause serious health
problems.
The key to
obtaining all the nutrients that your body requires is
eating the right mix of foods: a balanced diet. This
means eating a variety of foods from different food
groups that together contain all the vitamins,
minerals, and fuel (in the form of the macromolecules
carbohydrates, proteins, and fats) your body needs.
However, there is not one particular diet that is the
best for obtaining all these required nutrients.
Vegans, vegetarians, people with diabetes, those with
food allergies or celiac disease all have very
different diets but can all obtain proper nutrition
from what they eat.
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