The Healthy Food Directory [antikvár]

^tLNursINTRODUCTtON What is a Healthy Diet?What we need from any heahhy diet is energy, which is obtained by consuming a mixture of foods providing protein, fats, carbohydrates, vitamins, and minerals. The wider the variety of foods that we eat, the less likely we are to be deficient in any of the essential nutrients that our bodies need.Long before the supermarket, freezer, microwave, and food processor, humans were hunter-gatherers living largely on nuts, berries, fruit, and roots. We gradually added meat, dairy products, cereals, and vegetables to our diet. Humans thus became omnivores and on this mixed diet survived and developed through the millennia. We did not know about vitamins, minerals, and proteins, yet we thrived and prospered. Why, then, is everyone now obsessed with the topic of nutrition? At the end of the twentieth