Healthy Eating: How a Customized Diet May Be Best

Everyone knows that eating healthy is important. If you eat well, it’s easier to maintain a healthy weight, keep up your energy level, and stay in good health. But what you may not know is that eating a healthy diet does a lot more for your body than just weight management and energy production. In fact, how you structure your diet can have a much more dramatic impact on your physiological processes than you may realize. This is because the food you consume is strongly connected to your body’s hormones. If you consume a nutritionally balanced diet, with plenty of essential vitamins and minerals, your body will be able to produce a healthy balance of the hormones it needs in order to regulate itself. But if you eat a nutritionally imbalanced diet, your body will not have the resources it needs to produce all of the necessary hormones at the right levels—and new research shows that what constitutes a balanced diet may actually differ based on your individual needs. Read more…