What is a healthy diet?
Video Transcript What Is a Healthy Diet? Well, let’s continue. What is a healthy diet? You know there’s a lot of different dietary philosophies. The simplest dietary philosophy I would say is to eat food just the way nature provides them to you. In other words you go to the produce department and you get your fresh vegetables and fruits. You go to the grain section, you get your dried beans and whole grains. You go to the dairy department get your low fat dairy products. And you have your low fat or vegetable protein. So that’s what I mean by eating foods just as nature provides them. Anything that comes in a box or a can, you’ve got to be a smart label reader. As Jack LaLanne used to say, “If man makes it, don’t eat it.” So that’s what natural foods are all about. There are five food groups represented in the government healthy diet pyramid, five food group pyramid. Those being grains, the grain group which would be cereals and pasta, bread and whole grains and so on. The vegetable gr
