Eat Right To Feel Great

Eat Right To Feel Great

You And Your Diet

What is the ideal diet?

A healthy diet should achieve all of the following objectives:

1. It should have sufficient calories to maintain one’s metabolic needs and to power you through whatever activities you undertake. Stored fat should never be more than 30% of your body mass.
2. A good diet should have sufficient quantities of fat including monounsaturated, polyunsaturated and saturated fat. This should be balanced by omega 6 and omega 3 lipids.
3. It should also avoid saturated fats as much as possible, as well as trans-fats or trans-fatty acids as they are sometimes known.
4. A good diet should also include a significant amount of amino acids (which are complete proteins).
5. All the essential amino acids are present in both animal and plant protein.
6. There must be complete avoidance of directly poisonous substances such as heavy metals and carcinogenic substances.

One should also avoid high doses of certain foods that may be alright in small doses but not in large doses, such as:

1. Food or substances with directly toxic properties such as ethyl alcohol.
2. Foods that could exhaust the normal functions of the body such as eating refined carbohydrates that need extra dietary fiber to be digested.
3. Foods that could interfere with other body processes, such as refined table salt.