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How to Maintain a Healthy Lifestyle

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 If you want to eat healthy, you need to understand what the body needs to stay healthy and functional. Firstly as fuel, to move about and work and to keep us warm and supply the energy we need to stay alive. Secondly, for growth and to repair worn tissues food supplies the necessary materials. Thirdly for the chemical processes that take place inside our bodies, we require vitamins, minerals and other substances that are necessary. There are delicious high protein recipes available if you want to compensate your protein intake. Food supply energy and energy is measured as kilojoules. To maintain our normal body temperature, the normal tone of our muscles and to keep our heart and other vital organs functional and healthy two-thirds of this energy is used. Even when we stay in bed all day but to maintain our metabolic systems we will still need about two-thirds of our normal food intake. About 3350 kilojoules is required by normal activities such as getting walking, dressed, eating, wo