Build Your Body With Healthy Diet

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Article contributed by one of our Subscriber: Ms. Ruchi, Dietitian, New Delhi

 

A healthy diet is one that helps to maintain or improve one’s overall health and well-being. We all know that eating a healthy diet can help you maintain a healthy weight and avoid certain health difficulties, but your diet can also have an extreme effect on your mood and sense of well-being. A healthy diet is not about strict dietary limitations, staying idealistically thin, or depriving yourself of the foodstuffs you love. Rather, it’s about feeling great, having more energy, improving your outlook, and soothing your mood. If you feel intimidated by all the inconsistent nutrition and diet advice out there, you’re not alone. It seems that for one nutritionist who tells you a certain food is good for you, you’ll find another saying exactly the opposite. But by using certain simple tips, you can cut through the confusion and learn how to have a tasty, varied, and healthy diet that is as good for your health as it is for your body.
A healthy diet provides the body with essential nutrition that include fluids, sufficient carbohydrates, essential proteins, necessary fatty acids, vitamins, minerals, and abundant calories. The necessities of a healthy diet can be met with a wide-range of plant-based and animal-based diets. The Body needs vitamins, protein, minerals and other essential nutrients to help heal itself, so food can play a role in healing.

The Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics recommends:
Eat enough calories, and make sure they are balanced between protein, vegetables, fruits, dairy and grains.
Don't skimp on protein. Make sure to eat at least 20 to 30 grams of protein per meal and 10 to 15 grams per snack.
Drink plenty of fluids to stay hydrated. Opt for low-fat milk, water, tea, 100 percent fruit juice and other unsweetened beverages.
Meet with a registered dietitian if you have wounds that require special care and dietary needs.
Controlling diabetes to help promote better wound healing. Your doctor or a registered dietitian can help you keep blood sugar levels controlled.