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The most accepted theory of healthy eating being nutrition, here is a very basic understanding of  what all nutrition body requires and for the purpose of it. People normally try to complicate the things with innumerable vitamins and nutritional terms. The natural food therapist in earlier times probably didnot know those components, but still well aware of the therapeutic value of the various foods.

The most nutritious food diet basically combines three types of foods.

Heat and energy yielding foods : Fats and carbohydrates

Body building foods : Proteins ( Animal and vegetable proteins )

Protective foods : Minerals and vitamins
All three types of foods serve two main purpose of the body

Building structure of the organs in the body
Building the function of the organs
A slight deviation in its defined purpose, body comes up with diseases. No need

10 Healthy Eating Tips

As repeated before, this healthy eating website goes beyond a balanced diet plan. Certain dietetic rules need to be observed prior to, during and after taking food. This is not a detail diet plan, but a few healthy eating guidelines.

Obsession with the quality of food often makes us avoid few general but important considerations regarding food. Try to make these healthy eating tips into habits and slip them into your lifestyle. Here only minor changes are mentioned which you can easily bring in your daily life. Start with this and gradually over days, months or years, move towards the major shifts in lifestyle.

• Eat only when you are hungry. Beware of false hunger as many people suffer from it.

• Do not eat when you are angry. Rest for a while till the

In Continuation of Part 1 ..

Fibre : The most important healthy eating diet for teens must contain ample fibre component. People think it is an issue for adult only. But proper bowel movement from teenage is a must for teens to develop a healthy eating habit in future. This habit should start from good food choices.

An ill fibre diet neutralizes all the good effect of a highly nutritious diet over a period of time. Because role of fibre lies in the proper functioning of intestinal tract ( digestive system ) to speed up the elimination of waste products from the body. It reduces toxicity in the body and elevates the value of all the nutritious diet we take.

There are two types of fibre, soluble and insoluble. Both are needed in your diet for

If you plan a healthy eating for teens, then pay utmost importance to balance of food. People are crazy for calorie content of food and other statistics before they can prepare a food list that they will stick forever.

Be practical. Why? Well you may stick to a bookish “healthy diet for teens”, but your child will never. So a free style diet with a few regulations is the best compromise. Do not follow strict dieting, that is in fact not at all suitable for teens. You may retard growth and maturity in a strict diet.

If you expect a list of the vitamins and minerals for teens, then count all the nutrients discovered till date. The fact is teens need everything, every vitamins and minerals including all other nutrients.

Below is a list of nutrients

We have heard all the buzz about antioxidants, so what exactly are antioxidants and how do they work? To understand antioxidants, oxidation and oxidants need to be understood.

We know how essential oxygen is to our life. Yet, this is also inherently dangerous to our existence. This is known as oxygen paradox. Recent research shows that oxidative stress, or cell damage by free radicals is the main cause of most of the chronic degenerative diseases. These free radicals are harmful by products of the process of oxygen consumption in our body. These free radicals are also created from environmental pollution, certain industrial chemicals, and smoking.

If still unclear of what is oxidation, then think of the process of oxidation outside the body; for which a sliced apple turns brown, the rusting of iron etc.

In fact, oxidative stress is now the leading theory behind the aging process. Stop the oxidative stress, counter the

A carbohydrate diet food furnishes heat and energy. Carbohydrates are compounds of carbon, hydrogen and oxygen. Generally it is an easy low carbohydrate diet plan, that is preferred over a rich all carbohydrate diet. But as discussed below the fibre content in your list of low carb healthy food is a must for bowel movement. They are divided into three main classes.

Monosaccharides : e.g. glucose, fructose ( fruit sugar )

Disaccharides : e.g. sucrose, lactose, maltose

Polysaccharides : e.g. starches, dextrin, cellulose
The more complex sugars, disaccharides cannot be utilized by the body as such. They must be changed into simpler forms.

Polysaccharides contain starch and cellulose. They have to be cooked, heat breaks the walls of the cells and water gets into the starch grains. The starches are found in such foods as cereals, breads, macaroni, potatoes, and corn.

Sugars, a more concentrated form of carbohydrates than starches are found in honey, molasses,

This over emphasis on a healthy diet, healthy eating by this upcoming alternative health care industry is very disturbing especially when they are nowhere near the truth. They are blind to the underlying principles of natural health care and only bother about riding on the recent wave of healthy eating or healthy diet craze to sale their products.
The people who are beating the drum rolls of natural remedy, natural healing or natural health care are again some companies selling some natural supplements having biased theories having commercial intent.

Ask any doctor in the world, He will agree that living body heals itself. Wounds heal, bones knit, cuts heal, bleeding stops and fevers come and go. Surgeon cuts, Orthopedic surgeon sets the bone but actual healing is done by the body itself. Surgeons would not be able to treat wounds if healing doesn’t exist. The medicines and surgeries only should supplement

To know the effects of eating healthy, there should be a basic understanding of what food does to body. Food is any substance which the living body can make a part of itself. It is the usable material that can be made into living tissue. If your body can not accept certain materials as food, then it will react immediately in one form or other.

Now this food should be nutritious. Nutrition and eating healthy is all about a natural and well balanced food containing all nutrients needed for building the body and keeping it fit in functioning too.

Why Healthy Eating ?

• A man/woman is what he/she eats. If he eats wholesome, well balanced diet, he is healthy, strong and efficient. If the diet is faulty, he becomes weak, sickly and inefficient.

• Your youth gets longer. Who doesn’t want