Consuming a healthy diet is not about strict restrictions, staying unrealistically thin, or depriving yourself of the foods you like. Rather, it’s about feeling great, having higher energy, enhancing your health, and boosting your mood. It shields you against many chronic non-communicable diseases, such as heart disease, diabetes, and cancer. Having a variety of foods and eating less salt, sugars, and saturated and industrially-produced trans-fats, are necessary for a healthy diet.