What is a 'balanced' diet?

If you are anything like me you are sick to the gills of hearing segments on non dairy milk, skinny detox teas and eliminating food groups.

The volume of misinformation or misrepresented information in the media is mind boggling.

With that in mind, I want to share 3 things with you about achieving a balanced diet.

First, there is no such thing as foods that are good and foods that are bad, I don't believe demonizing food groups. Healthy eating can mean different things for different people. For example, I don’t tolerate dairy well and I’m allergic to eggs. So for me that is not going to be healthy.

But generally we consider a healthy to mean that 80% of the time, we eat good quality fruit and vegetables, protein and carbohydrates.