· What is the difference between diet and a healthy diet?

Answer 1

"A diet" typically is a temporary calorie reduction, or temporary change of eating habits to conform to some book for the sole purpose of losing weight. They are not intended to be used for the long term... one is expected to return to normal eating behaviors once they have reached their goal weight. That is why they don't work. You BECAME overweight with those eating patterns, it will happen again if you go back to them.

"A healthy diet" is usually referring to just eating healthy and having healthy eating habits. You aren't necessarily counting calories or restricting your intake... you are just eating better quality foods. You are selecting a chicken salad instead of pizza, oatmeal instead of donuts etc. These healthy eating habits are considered a permanent behavior that will keep the person healthy forever. They will continue even after the person has reached their ideal weight.

Answer 2

healthy diet- no processed food, no junk or fast food. A diet that is natural and fresh. No additives,, just the whole ingredients and cooked or prepared from scratch. But the term healthy is meaningless. If you enjoy your food, it's a form of health. Happiness needs to come into it. No good eating lentils and fruit is you hate it and get stressed. It's a very ver vague term- the word healthy. It's way too unfocused to be used for real in this contrast question. A vegetarian diet is simple to understand- because it means one fact- that the person cannot eat any meat or products off the slaughtered body of an animal ( meat, gletin, rennet, hooves, organs etc). Healthy, meh, just too vague. A vegetarian diet can be healthy. Fruit, veg, rice, pasta, nuts, fresh food, not fast food and junky. Vegetarians CAN eat fries and frozen pizza and chips all day though too.

Answer 3

It depends on your perspective. I think of a "diet" with a definite beginning and ending time. Once the diet is over, you go back to your old unhealthy eating habits and gain weight. A healthy diet is more of a lifestyle change. You make a conscious effort to make permament changes in your eating habits. A healthy diet would be 60% complex carbohydrates (whole grains), 20% high quality protein (eggs and low-fat dairy, fish), and less than 20% fat. Be sure to consume a wide variety of fruits and vegetables along with plenty of water (1/2 ounce for evry pound of body weight per day.) I hope this answers your question.

Answer 4

Forget these people who tell you diet is something you do (like starving yourself) to lose weight.

That really winds me up.

Diet is basically everything you eat. Food and drink.

A healthy diet is obviously a healthy version of this.

A healthy diet would consist of a variety of food containing all of the nutrients your body needs. These include carbs (pasta, rice, potatoes, etc.) Protien (chicken, fish, eggs, etc) and vitamins, minerals and antioxidants (from fresh fruit, veg, nuts and seeds, etc.) Current research suggests it is better to have four or five small meals a day, rather than one or two big ones.

Hope this helps.

Answer 5

diet is what and how you eat in general
people might think of diet as something they can do for a certain time -a few days or weeks (fad diets) or a few months ("when i lose this weight i am gona start eating like i did before")
healthy diet is one you can follow every day of your life and you dont gain weight back because you dont "get off" the diet

Answer 6

The difference between a diet and a healthy diet is:-

A diet is only temporary and when you stop over a period of time you put all the weight back on again.


A healthy diet is:-

A diet which incorporates healthy foods. Lots of vegetables, lean meats, fish, lots of fresh fruit, healthy cereals, wholemeal foods, low fat dairy products.

Limiting the amount of sugar, saturated fat, and junk food.

Also regular exercise.

That is a healthy diet.

Answer 7

I think when most people talk about a diet they refer to a temporary, weight loss regime. A healthy diet is something that should be a lifelong thing, not temporary.

Answer 8

Reducing the quantity is diet and taking the optimum requirement for your health and fitness is healthy diet.

Answer 9

Hiya, There isn't any difference as in 'diet' which means what you eat every day. 'Healthy' means good nutritious food that you eat every day.

People seem to think 'diet' means losing weight but it doesn't it just means what you actually consume each and every day.

I bet I've confused you even more now - haven't ???

Answer 10

a diet= something generally done to lose weight , normally quick and you also reduce something, whether it is the fat consmption or the calories where as a healthy diet is comprised of 2000 kcls a day [for women and men is 2500] and just has healthy food and the correct amount of each mineral, vitimin and food source is consumed :)
hope this helped with your querie

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