Healthy and Unhealthy Food

A healthy diet is one that provides all the essential nutrients and energy that each person needs to stay healthy.

A well-fed person has more opportunities to:

     • Developing fully
     • Healthy Living
     • Learn and work better
     • Protect yourself from diseases.

To eat healthy is recommended:

     • Distribute food in 4 main meals and 2 snacks
     • Moderate your portion sizes
     • Consume at day 2 fruits and 3 servings of vegetables of every kind and color
        preferably raw
     • At lunch and dinner, half the plate be vegetables and a dessert
        fruit
     • Incorporate legumes, whole grains, seeds and dried fruit.
     • Eat red or white meat (chicken or fish) no more than 5 times a week.
     • Cook without salt. Replace it with parsley, basil, thyme, rosemary and other
        condiments.
     • Avoid using salt at the table.
     • Limit your intake of sugar and alcohol.

Unhealthy Food

Drink Coke:

These cola drinks are better than common because they contain no sugar. However, they are still cola drinks with artificial colors and large doses of caffeine. He adds sweeteners are potentially carcinogenic.

Peanut Butter:

As the peanut is healthy fats. But, however, it is also true that large amounts of sugar used to produce it.

Sauces for salads:

Salad dressings are prepared with large amounts of fat. as lard, sugar, coloring and artificial sweeteners. All you have to please is that vegetables are fat soluble, so her nutrients are better absorbed.

Artificial fruit juices:





Food-not-healthy. In itself, the fruit juice is very good, but artificial, bought in supermarkets and shops have large amounts of sugar-even more than a full-chocolate, and do not provide the amount of fiber that do provide natural juices.

Granola, pastries, bagels, pretzels, rolls:



Food-not-healthy-10.jpg dishes are large amounts of carbohydrates, so that generate a blood sugar spike. Besides not obtain other nutrients (proteins, vitamins, minerals).