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Today’s world is becoming dirtier and unhealthier by the minute. It is an everyday challenge to live a healthy life. Our everyday needs of air, food, and water are usually of the “contaminated” form — the air we breathe is no longer pure oxygen but a cocktail of oxygen and pollutants, our food is laced with extra fat and preservatives, and our water is likewise pumped with treating agents to make it “clean.” Nearly nothing is ever what it should be.

After we have exerted everything we could in helping keep our environment clean, keeping the air and water clean is a matter best left to the regulatory bodies to take care of Food is a different story. There are things we can do to make sure the food we take into our bodies are clean and free of “contaminants.” Eating a healthy diet makes for longer and better quality lives.

Eating a healthy diet means not only looking at what we eat but also looking closely at how we eat, where we eat, when we eat and why we eat. The measure of successful integration of healthy eating in our daily lives is measured not by looking at the weigh scale but by looking at what is served on our tables meal-by-meal, day-by-day. A healthy diet is a way of life, it should not be done for temporary reasons or because of fads and crazes. By improving the way we eat through a healthy diet, we also improve the kind of body we have and imbibe a mental disposition that comes with feeling good physically.