Following a Healthy Eating Plan and Detoxification

 

Health There is more known about the benefit of food now than just a few decades ago. There is also indisputable prove that as much as 80 percent of food we eat or don't eat is the result of good or bad health. A healthy diet is a diet that assists in improving and then maintaining good health. A healthy diet is important for decreasing risk of many diseases, such as hypertension, diabetes, obesity, chronic heart disease, myocardial infection and cancer. A healthy diet consists of taking the right amount of all the necessary nutrients with necessary amount of water. All these things are available and are easily fulfilled from many foods. All such foods come under the banner of a healthy diet. Moreover, a healthy diet should have equilibrium of carbohydrates, fats, proteins and many essential vitamins to get energy and fulfill the requirements of human beings. A healthy diet should not only include the essential nutrients of food, but also prevent weight gain and don't induce toxicity. Healthy Eating Plan: In order to have a healthy diet, it is necessary to follow a healthy eating plan.

 As it is crucial to know what the right food is, it is even more crucial to know what food not to eat. An appropriately designed healthy eating plan will serve you with all the essential nutrients required and makes your body used to of the diet having a goal of calorie intake, which prevents over weighting. Most of the healthy eating plans have the following ingredients: Fresh vegetables, fruits, whole grains, beans, herbs and nuts. All such food items will give you the required nutrients your body demands for. Calories and Weight Loss: To get the weight reduced: In addition to follow a healthy eating plan you should also lower the calories intake with increased physical activities. Average 500 to 1000 calories has to cut down from a diet to lower the weight of one to two pounds in a week (1 KG approx.) Mostly, a diet with almost 1000 to 2000 calories taken in a day will prove effective in losing weight for females. This average value can differ for most males, who need about 1200 to 1600 calories daily for secure weight loss. This value can also be used as standard for a female, who has extensive strenuous physical activity and a body weight of 165 or more pounds (74.8 KG.) If after eating 1600 calories a day your diet is not satisfied, then you can increase calories of 100 grams each day. Therefore, it is important to take care when putting together a healthy eating plan. A diet with very low calories, I. e. eight hundred calories or less will have disastrous effects on your body. You should not follow such a diet plan unless you are under supervision of a natural-health care practitioner. Detoxification: A healthy eating plan should also have meal stuff which detoxify many harmful chemicals and improve body function by removing toxins from your body. The purpose of a detox diet is to clean the body by removing poison and toxins from it. A detox can happen quite simple just by changing bad foods for good healthy foods. The best benefits arrived from a detox diet comes from avoiding high processed foods which have lots of refined artificial sugars, wrong fat and wrong salt (use natural salt not table salt). Most processed foods have certain ingredients which are not healthy and not necessary for our existence. Food is one of the main reasons where toxins are coming from in the body, as well by stressed condition and dehydration. Therefore, such diet plan comprises of strict usage of raw vegetables, fruits, fresh juices; make your own juice because the ones of the shelf are not as pure as the label says. Water is important in this as well; drink several glasses of water every day. 

Although the amount of water consumed is often overstated, however, a certain amount of water is necessary when detoxifying your body for its cleansing purpose. Sometimes many herbs and supplements are added to a normal diet which can give many benefits. When choosing a supplement, it is advisable being most vigilant. Having too many, the wrong or bad quality supplement can do more harm than good. Following a healthy eating plan and detoxifying will make that difference to your health. When it comes to any diet or any detox plan, there is no formula where "ONE" size fits all. Your body will let you know of the first signs of change for the better. Follow your own instinct, and you are on the way to better health. My name is Josef Bichler. I have a passion for wellness and showing others how to live healthy lives. I have corrected my own health problems with the use of alternatives only and helping others to achieve their health objectives through lifestyle changes, detoxifying their body and through understanding the benefits of eating healthy. For more ongoing health information subscribe to my free weekly newsletter; this also gives you the opportunity for comment.