Balance your Diet

A balanced diet is extremely crucial for healthy and consistent weight loss and eventual weight maintenance. While a lot of people have heard this, not everyone knows what exactly a balanced diet means and how it is achieved. The problem is that with all the drastic, restrictive and eventually ineffective fad diets going around that promise to help you lose weight fast, correct dietary information often gets lost in the crowd. Well, here are a few suggestions.

The Meaning of a Balanced Diet

To begin with, you must understand that a healthy and balanced diet is a nutrient-rich diet, or, in other words, a diet consisting of food items that offer a relatively higher number of nutrients and fewer calories. It is also a varied diet, since every food item has its own nutritional limitations and ignoring any particular food group can cause serious nutritional deficiencies. When a diet is both nutrient-rich and varied, it is balanced. It is such a diet that will keep you feeling healthy for exercise, keep your metabolism high and lead to sustainable weight loss. Now, you might ask, if the problem of a good diet has such a simple and straightforward answer, why have complex fad diets become such a rage?

Why Fad Diets?

It is mostly because they offer a couple of irresistible attractions to most people. Firstly, they are short-term diets, so the sacrifices and trouble don’t last more than a few weeks at best. Secondly, these diets promise very fast weight loss. What you may lose in 10 months with exercise and a balanced diet, you can lose in 6 weeks with one of these diets. As usual, there are a lot of people who fall for the gimmick. The risks are dehydration, severe health problems and, almost always, rapid weight gain when you come back to a normal diet.

What should your balanced diet consist of??  Come to a meeting this week or take a look at this week's flyer to learn more.