Maintaining a healthy diet is the practice of making choices about what to eat with the intent of improving or maintaining good health. Usually this involves consuming necessary nutrients by eating the appropriate amounts from all of the food groups, including an adequate amount of water. Since human nutrition is complex, a healthy diet may vary widely, subject to an individual's genetic makeup, environment, and health. For around 20% of the planet's population, lack of food and malnutrition are the main impediments to healthy eating; people in developed countries have the opposite problem, and are more concerned about obesity.

Scientists are pushing to increase whole grain foods in our diet because nutritional deficiencies causes over eating and we all know that over-eating causes obesity which lead to all kinds of health problems.So said researchers from the Harvard School of Public Health and the U.S. Department of Agriculture

FDA’s Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition (CFSAN), in conjunction with the Agency’s field staff, is responsible for promoting and protecting the public’s health by ensuring that the nation’s food supply is safe, sanitary, wholesome, and honestly labeled. The Center’s primary responsibilities include:

The quality of food in school cafeterias has become a hot topic. Health concerns are fueling a movement to serve more nutritious food to public school students. While the debates are taking place at the municipal level, the trend is clearly national. Everyone agrees that nutritional diets are important, but with school budgets stretched, many

By John McDougall, MD People are seeking better health through better nutrition, and fat has become enemy number one for the health conscious public. Fat in the diet damages arteries leading to heart disease, promotes cancer, contributes to gallbladder disease and is the fundamental cause of obesity. "Once the fat is removed, the food is now...

If typical nutrition and health advocates are referred to as “The Food Police,” Charles Stuart Platkin should be installed as the director of the FBI. Not the Federal Bureau of Investigation, but the Food Bureau of Investigation. Platkin is a public health professional whose current title is “The Diet Detective.”