Top 10 Reasons To Eat a Healthful Balanced Diet
A healthy balanced diet includes foods from all the major food groups (fruits and vegetables, meats or proteins, dairy or calcium, grains, and a little bit of healthy fat). You also want to consume the right amount of calories to maintain a healthy weight. And, of course, you want to cut back on high-calorie, sugary, fatty foods like candy, cake, pastries, snack chips, pizza and the like. You don't have to eliminate them completely, but they shouldn't take up more than a tiny part of your daily menu.
Planning and eating a healthy diet isn't really difficult, and it's worth the effort because of what it can do for your body. Here are my top ten reasons to eat a healthy diet: