A Guide to Healthy Eating for Beginners

The foods you eat have big effects on your health and quality of life and today we are here with a guide to healthy eating for beginners.

Although eating healthy can be fairly simple, the rise in popular “diets” and dieting trends has caused confusion.

Research continues to link serious diseases to a poor diet. A good diet can improve all aspects of life, from brain function to physical performance. In fact, food affects all your cells and organs.

Nutrition is how food affects the health of the body and it is essential as it provides vital nutrients for survival, and helps the body function and stay healthy.

In terms of human nutrition, there are a number of essential and conditionally essential nutrients that comprise of healthy eating for beginners.

An essential nutrient is a nutrient that the body can’t produce in adequate amounts, so we must get it from our diet.

These nutrients can be divided into macronutrients (carbohydrate, protein, and fat) and micronutrients (vitamins and minerals).

Food is comprised of macronutrients including protein, carbohydrate and fat that not only offer calories to fuel the body and give it energy but play specific roles in maintaining health.

Food also supplies micronutrients (vitamins and minerals) and phytochemicals that don’t provide calories but serve a variety of critical functions to ensure the body operates optimally.

Building blocks include protein for growing babies in utero, for child and adolescent growth, and for repairing damaged skin, blood, and other body parts in adults who aren’t growing.

Some parts of the body are replaced regularly, like blood and skin, so even adults are building new body parts regularly.

Calcium is also a building block for building bones.

Iron is a building block for blood. Since blood cells only last a few months, the body constantly needs more iron and protein to make new blood.

Protein: Found in beef, pork, chicken, game and wild meats, fish and seafood, eggs, soybeans and other legumes included in traditional Central America cuisine, protein provides the body with amino acids.

Amino acids are the building blocks of proteins which are needed for growth, development, and repair and maintenance of body tissues.

Protein provides structure to muscle and bone, repairs tissues when damaged and helps immune cells fight inflammation and infection.

Carbohydrates: The main role of a carbohydrate is to provide energy and fuel the body the same way gasoline fuels a car.

Foods such as corn, chayote, beans, plantains, rice, tortilla, potatoes and other root vegetables such as yucca, bread and fruit deliver sugars or starches that provide carbohydrates for energy.

Energy allows the body to do daily activities as simple as walking and talking and as complex as running and moving heavy objects.

Fuel is needed for growth, which makes sufficient fuel especially important for growing children and pregnant women.

Even at rest, the body needs calories to perform vital functions such as maintaining body temperature, keeping the heart beating and digesting food.

Fat: Dietary fat, which is found in oils, coconut, nuts, milk, cheese, meat, poultry and fish, provides structure to cells and cushions membranes to help prevent damage.

Oils and fats are also essential for absorbing fat-soluble vitamins including.

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