Why You Should Eat Healthy

What Healthy Eating Is

• Eating 3 balanced meals per day
• Eating the appropriate amount of food from all of the food groups
  
• Eating when you’re hungry, and stopping when you’re full

Short Term Benefits

· Energy - Eating healthy foods provides the energy you need for activities such as sports, and consequently helps you stay fit. Activity is also more enjoyable if you have more energy to spend.

· Growth - Eating healthy foods raises the chances that your body will grow and develop to its maximum potential. This includes things like how tall you will grow, how developed your muscles will become, or how nice your skin is.

· Weight - Eating healthy foods helps you to be in control of your body weight. It ensures that you will be neither underweight nor overweight. The only exception to this is if you have a thyroid condition; in this case eating healthy will not affect your weight as much.

· Mental - Eating healthy foods stabilizes your mood. It also gives your body the nutrients it needs for your brain to function to the best of its ability. This means that you’ll be able to learn more efficiently, and you’ll have less mood swings.

Long Term Benefits (Will Prevent The Following)

• Heart disease – a variety of cardiovascular problems
  
• High cholesterol – blocked up arteries
  
• High blood pressure – makes your heart work extra heard to pump blood
  
• Strokes – blood fails to reach brain
  
• Diabetes – blood sugar irregularity
  
• Some cancers – a group of cells that grow uncontrollably
  
• Osteoporosis – weakens bones so that they are more likely to break
  
• Early death