When we talk about Healthy Diet, many people take it to mean that it is only for people who are overweight. Now this is not necessarily true. Intake of a healthy food is important if you want to lose weight, but it is also important for those who are not overweight. Obesity is nothing less than a disease; in fact it is the mother of diseases because it leads to many other health problems. Therefore it is very important that you take a healthy food, and this way you can help reduce the extra fat that is getting stored in your body and adding inches to your waist and get lots of other benefits. You can improve your memory, feel better about yourself and be more active and vigorous and most of all you can prevent many health diseases such as heart diseases due to excessive cholesterol, blood pressure and other such problems and thus lead a healthy and happy life.

There are some important things you need to know before you can embark on the path of taking a Healthy Diet. First and foremost, a Healthy Diet by no means implies that you have to give up the food you love, or starve yourself.  It also doesn't mean eating food that you don't like. To ensure that you are eating healthy, there are some things that you have to make a part of your life and other things that you have to give up such as smoking. But you can still have your sticky, chocolate toffee pudding once in a while: the idea behind is to avoid the unnecessary intake of unhealthy food such as food with a lot of sugar. This does not mean that you can never help yourself to a good dessert.

Another important thing to realize is that switching to Healthy Diet is a slow process and it is going to take time.  You cannot expect to implement it over night and expect your lifestyle to change drastically. This way, you will end up sabotaging your plan to take up a Healthy Diet.  So don't force anything on yourself and the trick is to go slow. Make a few changes every day, if you take two tea spoons of sugar in your coffee, try taking one, and hence slowly you will be over the make the change. This switch over will be permanent and will help you out a lot.

Other things about Healthy Diet include the usage of a lot of water, as it helps cleanse the blood, and is very good for your health. Add a lot of colour to your meals by using lots of vegetables, especially clean vegetables. Cook simple meals, and use lots of salad. There are many Healthy Diet meal suggestions that you can find in books and many websites and you can always take help from them. Try including proteins and vitamins in your diet, and also avoid excess sugar, salt and carbohydrates and you could have a very healthy life.