HEALTHY DIET

LESSON #4.1: HEALTHY DIET

BALANCED PROPORTIONS

 From the balanced diet table below we see the classes of food and to what category they belong. Most people most especially those who are below the middle class eat food to get full not knowing that the balanced portions of these different foods are important for daily consumption. Most of them will eat Katogo and porridge or maize and porridge, black tea and cassava or bread forgetting that they are concentrating on one food category (carbohydrates) ignoring the other important food categories.

A plate of Katogo 

While those in the middle class also fall  into this mistake eating such a breakfast in the name of reducing “costs”, which in the long run will cost you your health. Because in such a breakfast there is no calcium (milk), how strong will your bones be or your teeth? There are no vitamins; how strong will your immunity be?

 

An illustration showing ratios of food that make up a balanced diet

We always take these things for granted then end up spending lots of money on supplement products who of which surprisingly extract the same contents of these foods, compress them and preserve them in form of pills and syrups which are very costly. And you claim to be “saving money”

Ask yourself how much does it cost me to buy a liter of milk every day for 1 month as compared to me buying calcium supplements every month? We are a blessed nation we have all these foods in abundance it’s about time we started exploiting them and living healthy.

Each meal of the day should include all the foods in the table below in balanced proportions. Men need more calories than women. Sometimes the proportions depend on what type of work one does. Do not eat to the brim to the extent of not being above to move from your seat, eat what is enough avoid getting food that you won’t be able to finish. It’s not good to waste food.

In this table you can see how important milk is in everyday serving of healthy leaving. If you’re allergic to milk soy milk or any beverage with soya can supplement.

   Recall the wise saying "mens sana in corpore sano" which means in a sound body rests a sound mind. Never neglect the body which is intimately connected to the mind. This is your temple. Feed it the finest fuels, exercise daily and care for it as you would your prized possession - because it is.