A healthy diet is one that helps to maintain or improve overall health. A healthy diet provides the body with essential nutrients such as fluids, adequate amino acids from protein, essential fatty acids, vitamins, minerals, fibre and adequate calories. The World Health Organization (WHO) 2009 makes the following five (5) recommendations with respect to both population and individuals Maintain a healthy weight by eating roughly the same number of calories that the body is using. Limit intake o...
