Healthy Diet Tips

The diet, a balanced diet

From Latin diaetetica, “all rules for a balanced diet. The diet is similar to a way to act on his health and form through food.

There is today two movements as opposite as complementary: first, an abundance of food, especially fat and sugar in all possible outlets and unimaginable: bookstores, bakeries, tobacco stores, but restaurants Quick, shops, supermarkets. On the other hand, there is a real awareness of the absurdity of our diet too rich, hence the interest of many repented for junk food diet.

Note that even in countries with poor nutrition pose significant problems with deficiencies in certain nutrients for many people … but also an excessive increase in weight. Indeed, the “epidemic” of obesity on the same people in the developing world! This requires, also, to review their diet.

For the diet based primarily on a good balanced diet. If before, they spoke of “good percentage” of proteins, lipids and carbohydrates, today’s speech experts was simplified. In France, we can say that the diet, the “good rules” food is “dictated” by the National Health Nutrition (PNNS) which recommends eating:
- 5 fruits and vegetables per day
- 3 dairy products per day
- Fish twice a week
- Not too fat, or sugar,
- Not too much salt.