We all know how to eat. Diet means knowing what to eat. Thanks to the internet, everybody knows what not to eat (sweets, junk food etc.) but there seems to be a lot of confusion about what to eat. On this diet advice page we try to answer that question – specifically, what should be in our diet.

Modern life has become so fast paced that few, if any have any time to stop and think about the effect modern day life has on the body. Under these circumstances, eating a healthy balanced diet seems to have been relegated to the attic for storage to be dusted off and removed only when we become sick and the doctors warn us that unless we start eating a healthy balanced diet in earnest, our body is doomed.

These healthy eating guidelines aren’t some secrets handed down by the Aztecs or Egyptians or some exotic alien life form. Healthy eating guidelines are a straight forward common sense approach to food choices that we and our forefathers knew but seem to have mysteriously forgotten due the onslaught of junk food ads, restaurant ads and modern high-impact life style.

Before we explain the principles of healthy eating, let us begin by asking you a few simple questions like what do we know about our heart? It is fist sized, and located inside our chest. It provides blood to the entire body and if we don’t exercise or gain weight it experiences stress. Fine, that is good enough. Now what do we know about our lungs?

“90% of all human diseases originate from the stomach”

The first healthy eating fact is that there is an intimate relationship between the food you eat and the health status of your body.

There are eating habits and there are healthy eating habits – these are the latter. These healthy eating habits are not only beneficial to you they are a potential life saver! Discarding old eating habits and forming new healthy eating habits can be as easy or as tough as you want them to be.

The healthy eating chart displays the food groups you need to include in your daily diet along with the quantities of each food group. The healthy eating chart is based on the food and nutrient requirements of a reasonably active adult.