Nutrition and diet go hand in hand. Diet is what you feed your body, and nutrition is the nourishment, or benefit, that comes from the food.
Although diet can mean a structured plan, like Atkins or Jenny Craig, diet doesn’t just refer to these. We actually all have a diet.
Nutrition works the same way. We all need things from food, and we all have either good nutrition or poor nutrition.
- If you eat a balanced diet of grains, fruits, veggies, protein, and fats every day (with a few slips here and there), you have good nutrition.
- If you eat fast food at lunch everyday and order a pizza for dinner every night, you have poor nutrition.
The best part about nutrition and diet is, you’re in control. Making small changes can affect your health in a big way, and we have people to help.