Even if we know that we should stay healthy, many factors affect our diet - making it harder to make the right choices. Here’s what you can do about it. A healthy diet protects us against a number of chronic diseases , including heart disease, diabetes and cancer.
From early childhood, we receive an abundance of information about how we should eat to be healthy and reduce our risk of disease. And most people have a broad understanding of what healthy eating looks like. But this knowledge doesn’t always result in healthier eating.
In our new research, we set out to learn more about why people eat the way they do – and what prevents them from eating better. Lack of time was a major barrier to cooking and eating healthier foods ..
