HI, one of my interests is healthy eating. I eat whole, organic foods. In other words, unprocessed foods. Do you like to eat healthy?
It's something I aspire to! But in reality I eat a lot of processed foods and quick meals. One of my go to dishes is a vegetarian sausage pattie layered on top of an egg and then half a slice of cheese melted on top of that. What inspired your health-conscious decision?
I found that as I was approaching 50 I was weighing more than I wanted to. I switched to whole foods, cut out processed stuff, and dropped 37 pounds in a year!
Wow, that's so impressive! Have you noticed any other benefits beyond weight loss?
Dieting
Dieting is the practice of eating food in a regulated and supervised fashion to decrease, maintain, or increase body weight, or to prevent and treat diseases, such as diabetes. A restricted diet is often used by those who are overweight or obese, sometimes in combination with physical exercise, to reduce body weight. Some people follow a diet to gain weight (usually in the form of muscle). Diets can also be used to maintain a stable body weight and improve health.
Diets to promote weight loss
, many diets are not sustainable, and deprivation of certain foods leads to binge eating.
Teenagers following fad diets are at risk of permanently stunted growth.
Mainstream diet advice.
Healthy eating is simple, according to Marion Nestle, who expresses the mainstream view of nutrition:
The basic principles of good diets are so simple that I can summarize them in just ten words: eat less, move more, eat lots of fruits and vegetables. For additional clarification, a five-word modifier helps: go easy