What is a Healthy Diet Anyway?

Think of the word "diet" and what springs to mind? Restrictive meal plans? Best-selling books by skinny celebrities? Guilt producing health nuts who make us feel bad about craving our favorite foods?

If you've been diagnosed with metabolic syndrome, prediabetes or type 2 diabetes, you've prbably heard the word "diet", usually in the context of a health care professional telling us that we need to change to a healthier one. But what do they mean by that?

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