What is a Healthful Diet?

ADEQUATE

 

MODERATION

BALANCED

VARIETY

 

 

"A healthful diet provides adequate (the ability to maintain) nutrients, energy and fiber, and it includes sweets, fats, and salty foods in moderate (not too much not too little) amounts only.  A healthful diet includes an appropriate balance (combinations of food) of nutrients and a wide variety  (different foods from the different food groups) of foods.

 

No matter what your age-young or old, your weight-overweight or underweight, the status of your health-healthy or coping with illness, if you are mindful of these four characteristics of a healthful diet, you will do an excellent job in selecting foods that will provide you the proper combination of energy and nutrients on a daily basis.  Initially, it won't be easy, but with determination and focus, you will soon be on your way to eating a healthful diet"(Thompson, Manore & Vaughan, 2014).

 

Here's to your health and mine!

 

 

 

Thompson, J. L., Manore, M. M., & Vaughan, L. A. (2014). The science of nutrition. (Third ed.). Illinois: Pearson Education, Inc.