Exercise is recommended to gain weight, to lose weight and also to maintain current weight level. To gain weight, we need to lift weight whereas to lose weight, we need to move our body weight.

For most Americans healthy eating is not about eating adequately. If anything, it is just the opposite – we eat too much! Healthy eating will keep you fit only when you eat the right foods in the right quantity at the right time.

So let’s take a look at what foods are right for us and what are these ‘right quantities’.

The reality is that most people are not seriously overweight. Their body might have developed some unwanted, attention-grabbing bulk, and has gone soft and spongy losing a lot (if not all) of its tone and firmness.

Healthy eating is about creating a healthy eating plan that meets all your daily caloric needs (roughly 1,800 - 2,000 calories). Most people assume that eating healthy is all about eating adequate servings from each of the five food groups. This would be true in a general sense but there would be minor nutrition variations from individual to individual. Ditto for exercise plans...

It is common knowledge that healthy eating and fitness of the body is the secret to good health and longevity. But, due to our hectic lifestyles, we often ignore this simple truth and end up feeling tired with hardly any energy to make it through the day. But if you truly wish to change this bad situation for the better, there is hope. There are a number of ways in which you can fit healthy eating in your busy schedule and undo years of self-indulgence.

Exercise is considered such an important part of life that the US Department of Agriculture put it on the Food Guide Pyramid. Healthy exercise and eating complement each other and are absolutely vital to weight loss programs as well as to maintain ideal weight. Regular exercise along with healthy eating improves the quality of life as well as your physical fitness. Additionally, you have a lower risk of chronic ailments like cancer, blood pressure or heart disease if you have a fit body.