The Important Of Healthy Eating Health

What is the importance of healthy eating? Depending on where you live, you might start your
day with eating food first before doing an activity. Food is the most important thing in our lives
besides water. Moreover, healthy eating means eating a variety of food that gives you the
nutrients you need to maintain your health, feel good, and have energy. These nutrients include
protein, carbohydrate, fat, water, vitamin, and minerals. By refer the food pyramid, we can
know the amount of nutrient should we take for a day.
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Figure 1: healthy living pyramid, Nutrition Australia.
Nutrition is important for everyone. Other than nutrition, metabolism also related with healthy
eating. Metabolism is an energy that used to burn fat or calories you take everyday. Each of us
is having different types of metabolism, which is high metabolism or low metabolism. For
people who are in high metabolism, they do not have worry about the amount of calories that
they are taking. This is because, when we are high metabolism, the energy will burn the
calories in our body with fast. However, for person that having low metabolism, they must
worried about the total of calories that they are taking, if it not burn fast it will become fat in
our body. When combined with being physically active and maintaining a healthy weight,
eating well is an excellent way to help your body stay strong and healthy. However, many
people do not care about the types, variety, and amounts of food they are taking every day.
Nowadays, population of people eating unhealthy food is more than people who are eating
healthy food. The population is significantly different and increase from year to year. This
statement proved by the summary of Consumer Food Service Market Research 2011 in
Malaysia. Recovering from the economic crisis in 2008-2009, Malaysians spent more on eating
out in 2011. More customers were willing to pay for an expensive food, in full-service
restaurants, caf or fast food outlets. Customers did not mind paying for an irregular treat for
themselves or their family members. Operators offered food in unusual parts of the day, food
preparation to consumers who do not mind spending as a group (Market Research on Food
Service, 2011). Based on this research, we can know that many people in this state do not care
too much about the healthy of food they are taking every day. Some of them are willing to buy
a fast food and junk food for their family, without thinking of the importance of health or the
side effect will their family face in future.

First, there is a lot of unhealthy food available at our country market. As we can see, unhealthy
eating can subsist categorize by eating fast food, junk food or even ready to prepared food. This
unhealthy eating trend is like mushrooms after rain in any place. For example, McDonalds,
KFCs, Pizza Huts, Kenny Rogers, and many more brand are become top choices of people
who are in hungry. Other than fast food restaurant, junk food, can food or snacks may also
include in unhealthy food category.




Figure 2: fast food logos in our country.
Unhealthy foods exist when many of people or consumers out there, demand on some thing on
food that can be prepared in a short time. This is why many food restaurants exist today.
Besides, eating unhealthy food style can happen when many people choose fast food as a main
course when they are in hurry. This style also still largely applied to community within key
cities such as Kuala Lumpur, the Klang Valley area, Johor Bahru and main city in this country.
Some of them have argued that, fast food is more convenience for people in hectic lives. Even
though, the global trend of an increasing number of consumers ordering take away food, most
channels in Malaysia saw the opposite more when people were dining out instead of order take
away. A combination of a few factors led to this phenomenon. Busier work schedules meant
that consumers had less incentive to cook at home. Thus, they opted to eat out instead. Young
people tend to spend more on eating out. Those who enter the workforce gain financial
independence, and are willing to spend more on food at slightly higher priced on full service
restaurants or cafeteria. The great quantity of consumer food service outlets, which open early
and have late, closing hours in city centers, meant that consumers could choose different outlets
in which to eat at special times of the day. However, people should aware when taking fast
food. This is because, fast food or even junk food contents many preservative ingredient inside
it. Such as, MSG, more salt content, more Sugar content, food additives and fat content. The
preservative used to maintain the shelf life of the product. So, either it is live to eat or eat to
live? We are decided what we want to eat today. These trends were incorrect because many
people do not know what types of food that they are taking. The nutrient inside fast food is not
enough for human nutrition. People should take nutrient based on what they need and not
eating food based on what they want. The situation makes people enjoy their eating life style
without thinking the effect on their future.
Furthermore, life today is not like how it was before. Along time ago, people ate foods that
were pasture with balanced quantity of nutrient value. Not with chemicals, preservatives,
artificial colors and flavors which are known as Fast foods. Year ago, woman are not work
outside, but they only just stay at home and prepared a food to their family. Today, many
women choose to work outside to help their husband support their family finance. Based on this
situation, many teenagers or children learn to eat outside when their parents do not have enough
time to prepare a food for them. Therefore, this is how these trends may be happen. A large
amount of people who eat junk food more frequently do not know it is bad affect on their body,
which can be avoid if they use more healthy alternative Hence, there are many reasons to try to
make healthier choices. Eating junk food as a primary method of sustenance will lead to
diseases and illness because your body is being deprive from its needed nutrients. While, by
eating well you are strengthening your body and giving it proper nutrients to defend it in a time
of infection we are supposedly not get to postpone hunger because our stomach is always
worked to process food into our bodies in order to produce energy and build our physical.








Figure 3: processing of food in stomach
In our life, health is the most important thing that we must too stress. Eating also related to our
body, when we are eating well, the rate of our health also well balance. That is how healthy
eating play role in our lives. Furthermore, disease likes obesity, diabetic, hypertension, cancer
and other chronic diseases are highly related to fast food and junk food. It has more calories on
average meal than healthy food do, leading to greater weight gain and illness. Several of people
having a problem that they do not want to face it, which is gain weight. Especially woman, they
do not want their body out of shape, which can be issue when they meet up with their friends. It
is important to watch carefully what you eat, particularly at fast food restaurant or either taking
a junk food while you are in hurry. Therefore, knowing the nutritional content of food that we
are taking is a very important. Healthy foods such as fruits, vegetables, whole grain, lean meat
and fish, provides a balanced amount of nutrients. They are by definition nutrient rich with
vitamins, minerals and fiber that benefit for our body. Eating a balance of foods that contain
full nutrients such as, carbohydrate, protein and fat every day will help keep your blood glucose
to normal. We are also need to try to balance the need for nutrition and calories each day. The
healthy eating is required in order to build and repair cells and body tissues.


In addition, both unhealthful and healthy foods are reassembling in preparation time and they
have a like rate. Nevertheless, we must observe it on nutrient content on food that we are
taking. For junk food, it contains less or sometimes no proteins, vitamins and fiber. This is
different from healthy food, that is contains high proteins, high vitamins contain and fiber.
Healthy food is very important to have good life and better communication for many reasons.
First, for those who eat healthy food, they have capability to do hard work. Second, if a person
eats foodstuff that contain vitamins, proteins, iron and other important nutrients, he/she will be
free from diseases, and he can enjoy their lives. Moreover, everyone definitely likes to meet
those who have a good health, so a person who is healthy, he/she have friends. For example, a
person who looks weak and does not live healthy lifestyle will feel lonely, and they will not
happy. Therefore, if you want good looking, clever mind and make friends, you should eat
healthy. A good mind can be developing if people eat healthy food, and this necessary for
children. Besides having a good life and communication for people at any age, healthy food is
the perfect kind of food for children in many ways. It is necessary for proper growth and
development during childhood. Parent can offer a wide variety of nutrients to make sure that
their kids get what they need to be equal with every physical level of their life. Otherwise,
children who are healthy eating with balanced food are less likely to suffer from harmful
diseases such as over fitness or obesity.




Figure 5: different between healthy children and obesity children.
In Malaysia, there is a general survey carried out with the specific purpose of decide the
prevalence of overweight and obesity amongst children and adolescents. However, several less
significant scale studies have been report (J., 1996). The reported an occurrence of 8%
overweight between primary schoolchildren in Selangor (Ismail & Tan, 1998). The report show
that an obesity commonness of 6.6% among 7-year-olds while 13.8% prevalence was children
who are in 10-year-olds (Fatimah et al., 2001). About 8.7% fatness in children residing in
Kuala Lumpur as compared to 5.7% in Kota Bahru. In a recent survey of 11,500 schoolchildren
aged among 6-12 years from four regions in Peninsular Malaysia, revealed a commonness of
6% obesity in both sexes with small differences between urban and rural children (Ismail et al.
2003). Among 5,995 kids aged 7 to 10 years in all primary schools in Kuala Lumpur reported a
commonness of overweight of 9.7% among boys and 7.1% among girls,(WHO 1995). In
marked gap, the other reported a prevalence of less than 2% among 3,000 rural children (Khor
& Tee, 1997). It should be note, however, that all the above studies were report using different
cut-offs / criterion for significant overweight. The end result not strictly similar a more recent
survey carried out among young people of both sexes aged 12 to 17 years in four region of
Peninsular Malaysia and the Miri region of Sarawak report 19% of overweight using
the,(WHO, 1995) BMI-for-age cut-off of above 85th percentile (Poh et al. 2004).
Finally, as a conclusion, good nutrition is essential for good health and eating nutrition food
can help to prevent against common ailments, as well as more live threatening illness and
diseases. Medical scientists now believe that a third of all cancers and most cases of heart
disease are related to poor diet balance. There are many advantages of healthy eating compare
to eating fast food or junk food. As a consumer, we must decide which types of food we need
to take. Therefore, we are recommended refer to the food pyramid when we are setting up our
meals. Make sure that food that we are taking enough of nutrients contain like vitamin, fiber,
carbohydrate, water and others. Even we are in hurry, we must remember that fast food might
contain lot of food additives, preservative and more contents of salt and sugar, which is can
make our healthy level decrease. We also may become sick and not happier than our life
before. So, watch out when taking unhealthy food than healthy food. Parent also play an
important role for their children, they must being observe when they are children taking a food.
For a better way, parent should cook for their children if they have time. Children may also
involve in getting diseases such as obesity and gain weight. It is important for parents to watch
carefully what your children eat for proper growth through their childhood lifestyle. Other than
that, parent should not teach their children eat fast food when they are outing. Lastly, why did
not we choose eat fruits such as banana or an apple instead of eating and drinking can drink or
potato crisp. For that reason, in our life we must always remember that healthy eating is
important in our life. This fact related with what an Indian-born American physician and writer
say, Life is like a tree, and its root is consciousness. Therefore, once we tend the root, the tree
as a whole will be healthy. (Deepak Chopra, 1977)