Eating healthy consists of eating a variety of healthy foods every day. This includes a wide range of plant-based foods more often and eating less processed foods.

A healthy diet includes:

• Eating lots of vegetables and fruit. These should cover half of your plate at mealtime.
• Choose whole-grain foods. These are foods that are made with the entire grain. They have fiber to keep you full, protein, and B vitamins. Fill a quarter of your mealtime plate with whole grains.
• Eat protein foods, such as nuts, seeds, legumes, tofu, fish, eggs, poultry, lean meats, lower-fat dairy products, and shellfish. Protein is good for bones, muscles, and skin. Eat protein every day and try to eat fish twice a week. Fill a quarter of your mealtime plate with protein.
• Try to make water your main beverage.

The primary focus of eating unhealthy is a poor choice of foods. It can also include the amount of food you eat, how often you eat, and some would even say when you eat. While some factors may be easy to determine, it may be difficult to know which foods are healthy or not.

The most easily identified unhealthy foods are those that are highly processed. Fast foods and snacks are the most common. Highly processed foods are generally low in vitamins, minerals, and antioxidants. They can also be high in calories, sodium, sugar, and refined flour.

Another way of eating unhealthily is eating out too often. It is very common that restaurant meals are bigger than you need. You can easily consume too many calories. They can often contain high levels of fats and sodium.

Choosing when you eat or how often you eat can also be considered unhealthy. If you eat too frequently, you may be eating too much. If you space your meals too far apart, you can slow your metabolism.

Eating healthy has many advantages over eating unhealthily. Good nutrition is essential. A healthy diet helps children to grow and develop properly and also reduces their risk of chronic health problems. Adults who eat healthily will live longer and reduce their risk of obesity, type 2 diabetes, heart disease, and certain types of cancer. Eating a healthy diet can also help people manage certain chronic diseases and reduce the complications that are associated with them.

Eating a healthy diet can help to reduce obesity and being overweight. These have reached serious levels in the U.S. Eating healthy and managing weight can also reduce inflammation in the body, especially in the joints. This makes being active much easier.

Healthy eating will lead to wonderful improvements in health and well-being. However, some people can focus too much on their eating and eating habits and develop an eating disorder called orthorexia, or orthorexia nervosa. Like any other eating disorder, orthorexia can create severe consequences. People with this particular eating disorder become fixated on their diet so much that has a negative impact on other areas of their life.

So, it isn’t the food that can be unhealthy it’s the person’s relationship to their diet and eating habits that become the problem.

Metabolic Medical Centers can help you develop a healthy diet that allows you to continue to live a full and healthy life. Call us and start your journey, today. We serve patients from Mount Pleasant SC, West Ashley SC, Murrells Inlet SC, Columbia SC, Bluffton SC, Sullivans Island SC, Isle of Palms SC, Daniel Island SC, Charleston SC, James Island SC, North Charleston SC, Pawleys Island SC, Myrtle Beach SC, Hilton Head SC, and Hardeeville SC.