A healthy diet is essential for good health and nutrition.
It protects you from many chronic non-communicable diseases like heart disease, diabetes and cancer. A healthy diet requires eating a variety of foods and consuming less salt, sugar, and saturated and industrially produced trans fats.
A healthy diet includes a combination of different foods. This includes:
Staples such as grains (wheat, barley, rye, maize or rice) or starchy tubers or roots (potatoes, yams, taro or cassava). Legumes (lentils and beans).
Fruits and vegetables.
Foods from animal sources (meat, fish, eggs and milk). There is some useful information in this book, based on experience and the Internet. Which is about following a healthy diet and the benefits of doing so.