Health for all

• Healthy food is defined as a variety of foods that provide the body with the nutrients necessary to maintain its health, provide it with energy and make it feel comfortable. These elements include carbohydrates, proteins, and fats, as well as minerals, vitamins, and water. A healthy diet helps prevent malnutrition in all its forms, and helps prevent non-communicable diseases, such as heart disease, diabetes and cancer. In fact, healthy eating practices begin early in human life; Breastfeeding helps with healthy growth and cognitive development, as well as its other long-term health benefits, such as reducing the risk of obesity or overweight and certain non-communicable diseases later in life.

• The importance of healthy food

• Public Health

A healthy diet is of great importance as it benefits all parts of the body; supports it in performing its various functions, helps protect cells from environmental damage and repair damaged ones; Where protein helps to rebuild injured tissues, enhances the work of the immune system, while carbohydrates and fats provide the necessary energy for the body, vitamins and minerals participate in various body processes; For example, vitamin C and vitamin A, in addition to vitamin E, act as an antioxidant against various toxins, and for the vitamin B family, they help the body extract energy from food, and both phosphorous and calcium keep bones strong and healthy, in addition to sodium and potassium that help The body transmits nerve signals.

• Diseases and prevention

A healthy and balanced diet helps prevent many diseases, and this is not limited to obesity and its related diseases; However, it should be noted that an acute excess or deficiency of a nutrient may lead to several health problems, for example, the risk of osteoporosis increases in cases where food does not contain sufficient amounts of calcium, and a lack of fruits and vegetables. It is associated with an increased risk of cancer, while a diet that contains a lot of saturated fat can cause cardiovascular disease.

• Weight control

  Losing weight not only requires reducing the amount of calories consumed per day; However, you should follow a healthy and balanced diet, abstain from eating calorie-rich meals such as fast food, processed foods and drinks rich in sugar, and make sure to eat foods and drinks with low calories and high nutritional content. It should be noted that it is necessary to avoid primal diets; Such as those who recommend abstaining from eating for long periods, or avoiding eating some food groups such as meat, fish, wheat and dairy products, because these diets have bad side effects; They cause bad breath, diarrhea, and headaches, plus they are short-lived and difficult to maintain.

• Steps to follow healthy eating habits

  Everyone has eating habits that are inherent in them since childhood; Some are good, some are bad, like not eating breakfast. It should be noted that a sudden change in such and other habits is certainly difficult, but it can be overcome by making an organized plan, and here are some tips for writing a list of a person’s eating habits, by writing down everything that is going on. he did. Take it, and how you take it, over the course of several days. Recognizing improper eating habits, which usually lead to overeating, such as: eating too quickly, eating despite not feeling hungry, eating in a standing position, excessive sweets, and dispensing with some meals such as breakfast. Remember when and how some bad eating habits arose, usually as a result of emotional symptoms or environmental causes.

  Determine the food habits that the person exercises frequently, Quit unhealthy habits and try to follow healthy habits, after knowing the reasons behind bad habits, for example, eating alone may be an incentive to eat very quickly, and to get rid of this can be careful to eat with the family or with a colleague. Keep promoting new healthy habits and try to monitor the person themselves and be patient.

  Finally, I wish everyone good health, God willing