There are many foods that we can consume to help prevent, not create disease. But how do we know what to eat? Well, we have to know what a healthy diet looks like. First, a healthy diet must provide all the essential nutrients (water, carbohydrate, healthy fat, protein, vitamins, and minerals), fiber, and energy to maintain health and body weight. Also, a healthy diet will provide foods in proportion to each other so that foods high in some nutrients to not overtake foods that are high in other nutrients. A healthy diet makes sure that energy intake does not exceed energy needs in order to control body weight as well. Ensuring that constintuents do not excess the set limits is also important. There needs to be a variety of nutrient-rich foods in a healthy diet as well (Sizer & Whitney, 2013).
Recognizing a healthy diet, however, is not the hard part. The hard part is adopting it. For some people, getting into a habit and changing your lifestyle is the most difficult step to adopting healthy nutrition. You brain has to convert your taste buds from craving processed, unhealthy foods to healthy, nutrient-dense foods. You also have to make the time to prepare healthy foods. There is no microwave button to generate a nutritious meal. You also have to make the time and generate the funds the buy healthy foods. Whole foods have a much shorter shelf life that processed, packaged foods. They also typically cost more money. The way I have started looking at this though, is that the price of multiple doctor visits and lab work to determine your health status is much more expensive than spending a little extra time and money on food that will keep you away from there!
Sugars (sucrose and lactose) from food and maltose and polysaccharides from the starch
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