How to eat healthy and prevent lifestyle diseases

Eating healthy is fairly simple if we focus on the basic food groups on our plate and not chase fad diets and supplements. Here’s a basic guide

Nutrition is one leg of our journey to better health — movement, rest, and relationships are the others. To be healthy, we need to follow basic nutrition principles because diseases have often been linked to poor diet. We need nutritious food for the body’s growth and repair work, our internal bodily functions, and to work, both physically and mentally. It also helps us build immunity — that much bandied about phrase in COVID-19 times. Eating healthy is not a weekend warrior activity, but a daily commitment that extends to a lifelong process, says Megha Jaina, clinical nutritionist at Delhi’s BLK-Max Super Speciality Hospital. “What we eat directly impacts our quality of life,” she says. We can meet the requirement of our energy levels through the day with our daily diet because the food we eat provides us with all the essential nutrients