The Benefits of Healthy Foods

What is healthy eating anyhow?

Food is necessary for your body to function. It provides the energy which needs to fuel your metabolic functions, such as respiration, your circulation and your physical activities, such as running and walking, which assist your body organs to function at their best. Eating too much food can be just as bad for us as eating too little. The type of food we consume and the amount of food we eat, influence how we feel because of the efficiency of our body functions.

Eating a balance diet makes me personally feel better, not only because I have more energy, but I do not feel as sluggish and tired. By eating a variety of foods, you will be eating your basic nutritional requirements. A healthy diet maintains your teeth and bones, giving you sparkling eyes and a glowing skin with a healthy color. Strong healthy muscles not only look good, but enable you to be more healthy, while having the capacity to fight illnesses and injuries, because it is fitter.

The food we take into our body is called energy and is stored as fat in the form of adipose tissue. Too many fat stores can have us putting on weight, especially if we do not exercise and use energy and our fat stores. Using your fat stores, means you can loose weight. By the way, I am speaking from experience, having once lost eight stone through proper nutition and an increase in physical activity. Eating lots of take away did nothing for my figure, and made me feel sluggish and frumpy.