healthy diet?

Question

How the hell do you find out what is a healthy blanced diet for each individual.

are somethings ok to go over the recommended daily allowance, would it make you any healthier?

Answer 1

find calorie/fitness calculator on the net, enter all your stats and it will tell you how many calories you need a day to maintain, take off 300-400cal off that number and thats how much you need to lose.
eat 5-6 small meals a day (eat every 2-3 hours)
5-8 servings of fruit and veggies a day
8 glasses of water
have complex carbs for breakfast - they give you energy
have lean meat (protein) for dinner - repairs muscle
cardio exercise 4-6 times a week for 30-50min, light weight training
dont consume foods that are made of white flour (white bread, cakes, past etc.), sugar loaded foods (cookies, icecream, candy etc) and nothing fried, oily.
ofcourse you can spoil yourself once in a while with a little treat:)

Answer 2

I really don't think that there is a healthy balanced diet for each individual.

Look at this ..... I am a Diabetic and we are meant to eat less, more often ..... so the Hospitals have put me on :

500 calories breakfast
250 calories morning tea
500 calories lunch
250 calories morning tea
500 calories dinner
250 calories snack before bed ... which equals

2250 calories per day.

I'm 5'7" and weight just on 10 stone.

Dietitians, personnel and weight loss companies put their clients onto about 500 calories per day. They don't really lose weight, they put it on because your body makes it's own sugar when your body doesn't think that your eating enough.

I love eating ... no I wouldn't be healthier if I had to eat rabbit food all the time.

Hope this helps.

Answer 3

Eat only when hungry and that too not more than three times a day. Take no solids/liquids other than water in between. Include plenty of uncooked fruits and vegetables in ur diet. Eat uncooked food first. Chew each morsel at least 32 times. This will activate ur autosystem and u will know precisely when u r hungry and when u r full.

Take light exercises and brisk walks regularly preferably twice a day.

U will achieve what u have aspired for all these days within a short period and that too w/o hassles.

Answer 4

Everything in moderation. And if you have a bad day, so what? It's when you start to torture yourself about every calorie that problems really begin.

It won't necessarily make you healthier - eg, it you have more vitamin C, your body only takes what it needs and the rest comes out as a waste product.

Answer 5

tip: for a healthy diet that i am currently on is when u snack instead of eating all of what u normally eat (such as chips, cookies, ect.) just get a LITTLE ziploc bags worth of everything u snack on everyday.