Healthy Triangle

All of us today are facing an increasing of nutritional challenges due to the way in which we eat, what we eat, how much we eat and the way that we live our lives. Eating a right amount of food may sound daunting, but for many just a few small changes can make a big different to our overall health.

Pyramid food is designed to make healthy eating easier and a triangular diagram that show you the number of each food quantity that should be served a day. Healthy eating is about getting the correct amount of quantities, nutrients. Based on what already contain in the pyramid food like fat, protein, vitamins and carbohydrates. All of the levels have their pros and conts. By following the pyramid food as a guider will help you to get the right nutritious food with the calories.

As we know, pyramid food has a levels of distrubation such as fat, protein, vitamin and carbohydrates . The first level is fat. Parents out there should be serious about this to make their kids stay healthy. Children under 5 years old should have no food with added sugar and salt. This level should be 0 serving especially for kids. For example, chocolate, sweets, oil and many more. Next level  is protein. Everyone need protein in their body to grown up very well. Protein is needed because it can rebuild your body tissues, skin, blood and so on. Our body need large amount of protein.  You can eat a chicken, fish, meat, egg, and more.  Vitamin is also one of the level. We need more salad and vegetables than fruit. This level should be 4 or more servings a day. You can choose to eat any vegetable such as broccoli, carrot, cabbage, green beans and the others. The last level is carbohydrates. Carbohydrates is the main ways the body obtains energy or calories. They consist of carbon, hydrogen and oxygen atoms. This should be 3-5 servings a day. You can take a wholemeal cereals, breads, potatoes and rice.

According to the expert of sorrow, everyone should take proper food and order according to the prepared food pyramid. Everyday the quantity of food to be taken as follows the first level contains carbohydrates in eight to twelve meals. For example, fat rice at lunch time. Meanwhile, that second level contains vegetables and fruits. We must take foods that contain more vegetables and fruits in three to five meals a day. For instance, eat fruit and vegetables at dinner time. In addition, the third stage of the pyramid food contains protein which are milk and dairy. We have to take two to three servings for protein. Next, the fourth level in the pyramid food contains fat. We must take a litte fatty food so it will not give effect for our healthy. For example, eat the meals like fish, chicken, egg and so on during breakfast.

In our daily life, we need to avoid eating unhealthy foods. This is because, if we eat unhealthy foods our weight will rise. This will makes us hard to do our daily routine like doing exercise. Another than that, our body will also lack protein. So that, the body will become weak and everything that we should do will not done. We should follow the pyramid food by taken how much the quantity we need and not taken what we don’t really need for our body.

In conclusion, very important that an individual ensures getting appropriate foods and incorporates the principle of good nutrition such as variety, a balanced intake of nutrients and moderation. The best way to meet the daily requirements is to eat a varied diet that combines cereals, fruits and vegetables, meat, fish, poultry, legumes and dairy products. Eating a variety of foods daily as guided by the Food Pyramid should provide all the nutrients needed by the body.