Healthy Eating?

Question

How would you define the term healthy eating?

Also:
-Which food groups make up a balanced diet?(does vitamins and minerals count?)

-What would happen if we did not eat a balanced diet

Answer 1

Try low carb, low fat, high fibre, high protein, and exercise. The foods are low caloried, and yet filling and healthy. Brisk walking is great for burning body fats.

It is my lifestyle now. I am on low carb, low fat, high fibre, high protein and a hour brisk walk 5 times a week, and I have lost 31lbs/14kg and gained better health. I am now maintaining my 108lbs/49kg for more than a year, with more fruits and complex carbs.

Details such as my experience, the effects of sugar and trans fats on our body, meals, snacks, recipes, foods to buy, reading labels, walking as an exercise and to shape the body etc etc, are in my blog

Answer 2

I define healthy eating as good, real, food as close to possible as what God made and the way God intended-- plants and grains and no animals or animal products.

Unfortunately, these days there is the Standard American Diet (appropriately acronymed SAD). Which is essentially, high amounts of meat, dairy, and other forms of overly processed "food".

Not eating well results in poor health. Unfortunately, I see it with my in-laws. They're overweight, they've had health problems, including diabetes, heart problems and cancer. They both have difficulty walking and I think it's from their excess weight. My MIL's doctor has diagnosed he with high cholesterol and I think it's largely from what she eats. (The day she told me, she was eating things like fatty dressing on her salad [I think the heavy dressings ruin the salads], red meat and other junk.) Fortunately, my husband is changing his ways early. I think it's a combination of my prayers (definitely), a rush to the ER a couple of months ago (turned out to just be muscle stress from moving furniture that I couldn't help with as I was seven months pregnant), and the pending birth of our first child, who is due any day.

My parents still eat things that I don't consider healthy, but when I vist them, I don't have to worry about what I might or might not find in their kitchen and I don't have to worry as much about bringing food with me, other than soy. They're also healthy and care for themselves overall. (While my parents are, chronolgically, three to five years older than my in-laws' I think their health is "younger".)

Vitamins and minerals are part of healthy food, so they are included. I personally like this food pyramid, which is a revision of the one from the US federal government.
http://www.vegsource.com/nutrition/pyramid_vegan.htmhttp://www.chooseveg.com/vegan-food-pyramid.asp
(The links can be found by doing a Yahoo! Search for "vegan food pyramid")

I hope this helps.

Answer 3

breakfast: green vegetable,pea,milk,a splash wheat bread lunch: 2 forms of green vegetable,rice,fish or marine nutrition supper: a million different form of vegetable, fowl egg, soup and silvervine

Answer 4

NOT eating foods that can kill you.