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ShareA healthy diet contains a balance of food groups and all the nutrients necessary to promote good health.
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Human nutrition is enormously complex and a healthy diet may vary widely according to an individual's genetic makeup, environment, and health.
Healthy eating is the practice of making choices about what and/or how much one eats with the intention of improving or maintaining good health.
Typically, this means following recommendations for a healthy diet.
The concept of healthy eating is primarily a problem in rich countries where the lifestyle includes a modicum of outdoor physical activities, high but not always high-quality food consumption, and a trend towards industrially-produced foods instead of locally-sourced, locally-prepared meals.
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