Why Should we eat healthy food …….

[Esther ogunseemi]

healthy diet is essential for good health and nutrition.

It protects you against many chronic noncommunicable diseases, such as heart disease, diabetes and cancer. Eating a variety of foods and consuming less salt, sugars and saturated and industrially-produced trans-fats, are essential for healthy diet.

A healthy diet comprises a combination of different foods. These include:

Staples like cereals (wheat, barley, rye, maize or rice) or starchy tubers or roots (potato, yam, taro or cassava).
Legumes (lentils and beans).
Fruit and vegetables.
Foods from animal sources (meat, fish, eggs and milk).
Here is some useful information, based on WHO recommendations, to follow a healthy diet, and the benefits of doing so.

Breastfeed babies and young children:
A healthy diet starts early in life – breastfeeding fosters healthy growth, and may have longer-term health benefits, like reducing the risk of becoming overweight or obese and developing noncommunicable diseases later in life.
Feeding babies exclusively with breast milk from birth to 6 months of life is important for a healthy diet. It is also important to introduce a variety of safe and nutritious complementary foods at 6 months of age, while continuing to breastfeed until your child is two years old and beyond.

Eat plenty of vegetables and fruit:
They are important sources of vitamins, minerals, dietary fibre, plant protein and antioxidants.
People with diets rich in vegetables and fruit have a significantly lower risk of obesity, heart disease, stroke, diabetes and certain types of cancer.

Eat less fat:
Fats and oils and concentrated sources of energy. Eating too much, particularly the wrong kinds of fat, like saturated and industrially-produced trans-fat, can increase the risk of heart disease and stroke.
Using unsaturated vegetable oils (olive, soy, sunflower or corn oil) rather than animal fats or oils high in saturated fats (butter, ghee, lard, coconut and palm oil) will help consume healthier fats.
To avoid unhealthy weight gain, consumption of total fat should not exceed 30% of a person’s overall energy intake.

Limit intake of sugars:
For a healthy diet, sugars should represent less than 10% of your total energy intake. Reducing even further to under 5% has additional health benefits.
Choosing fresh fruits instead of sweet snacks such as cookies, cakes and chocolate helps reduce consumption of sugars.
Limiting intake of soft drinks, soda and other drinks high in sugars (fruit juices, cordials and syrups, flavoured milks and yogurt drinks) also helps reduce intake of sugars.

Reduce salt intake:
Keeping your salt intake to less than 5h per day helps prevent hypertension and reduces the risk of heart disease and stroke in the adult population.

[Esther ogunseemi]

Do we know eating good food regularly increase in the production of antibodies that protect our body from all kinds of infections? 🤔

[Tofunmi]

Healthy diet is so good ,it helps the body to function properly as it should

[Esther ogunseemi]

Correct ✅✅

[Esther ogunseemi]

Correct

[Esther ogunseemi]

Make we see money eat better food remain

[Oyedibu Fikayo Odunayo]

Eating healthy food provides essential nutrients for your body, supports overall health, boosts energy levels, helps maintain a healthy weight, reduces the risk of chronic diseases, and promotes a better quality of life in the long run.

[Okanlawon Oluwapelumi]

Very true ✅

[Ellap]

Eating healthy food is important for aver all well being of of a person.It reduce the risk of contaminating so many diseases

[Esther ogunseemi]

Well said

[Umair Esther Eniola]

Eating healthy is being health simple .
We mostly get sick when we consume too much unhealthy foods ….try having a diet and eating more of fruits and vegetables and see the wonder it’ll do in you life

[Esther ogunseemi]

Its also necessary to balance our diet too

[Okanlawon Oluwapelumi]

We pray everything reduce so that eating balance diet will not be hard
Cos ko easy
People that are eating balance diet are not many
Some has even forgotten what balance diet means

[Esther ogunseemi]

Abi oo

[Esther ogunseemi]

More reasons our government should be attentive to our plea concerning this present economy

[Umair Esther Eniola]

That’s the most important thing o .. even with the way things have gone up in price .at least we fit strive chop one fruit per day na

[Okanlawon Oluwapelumi]

Health is wealth
We also need to be super careful of whatever we consume

[Esther ogunseemi]

Its so sad a lot of people do not watch what they eat… Reason why they are prone to all kinds of disease

[Opeyemi]

It is well
May God help us

[Esther ogunseemi]

Definitely

[Okanlawon Oluwapelumi]

Amen

[Ololade Kehinde]

Good feeding signifies good living.

[tjdominic]

Very good info. This covers nearly all we need for a healthy diet. Let’s not forget to add exercise too, to complete the equation

[Samaila Habila]

To acquire energy for life functions

[Esther ogunseemi]

But how could we balance our healthy living when everything is getting more expensive? 🥺🤔