Nutrition-What is Healthy?

August 15, 2008 at 3:45 am | In Foods, Health, Health Information, Health Promotion, Healthy eating, Nutrition, Risk Factors | 2 Comments
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Nutrition is important for a  healthy lifestyle, to prevent diseases, to promote speedier recovery from illnesses and to boost our immune system.  Good eating habits need not be expensive, nor healthy meals difficulty to prepare.  Quite often; however, nutritious meals are associated with a large grocery bill and lots of time to prepare.  Healthy eating is not about having plenty to eat either, but about eating the right amount of the right foods.

For those who enjoy preparing meals, fast food may already been removed from your meal plans.  Nutritious food products are not necessarily expensive. 

For those with a busy lifestyle, there is help available, there are tools and resources so you can eat nutritous meals. 
I have written a number of  articles on nutrition,  so I will be blogging on nutrition , and will be sharing excerpts from some of these articles with you.

For the purpose of healthy eating the food we prepare to eat is broken down into four groups. They are listed in order of importance to your meal plan. That is you need  more servings of vegetables than you need of grains, and so on.

  • Vegetables & Fruit
  • Grain Products
  • Milk & Milk Alternatives
  • Meat & Meat Alternatives

The criteria used by Canada Food Guide  for grouping these products are:

  • Foods originating from the same agricultural base. 
  •  How foods have traditionally been classified.
  • How people used foods

The information that I will be sharing with you is current.  I will  be updating if necessary.

The nutrition information will be useful to both vegetarians and those on a weight a loss diet. I mentioned these two groups because their eating habits have been assosiated with choice.  You can find more about this topic.

Fruits & Vegetables

Grain Products

Milk & Milk Alternatives

Meat & Meat Alternatives

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  1. Love this blog I’ll be back when I have more time.

    Comment by mrred — April 23, 2009 #

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    • Nutrition is one of the health topics I write about to teach . Thanks for the feedback on this post mrred.

      Comment by healthyoupromo — May 1, 2009 #


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