Maintaining a healthy diet is the practice of making choices about what to eat with the intent of improving or maintaining good health. Usually this involves consuming necessary nutrients by eating the appropriate amounts from all of the food groups, including an adequate amount of water. Since human nutrition is complex, a healthy diet may vary widely, subject to an individual's genetic makeup, environment, and health. For around 20% of the planet's population, lack of food and malnutrition are the main impediments to healthy eating; people in developed countries have the opposite problem, and are more concerned about obesity.

Despite myths, snacking can actually be a good way to maintain a healthy weight; it's better to eat less at a time more often throughout the day, says Linda McLachlan, RD, CDN, a New Jersey dietitian with Nutrition Matters, LLC. However, your choice of munchies can prove to be your downfall. Check out which foods work great as diet snacks.

he girls at Diet.com bring you a diet survival guide for the holiday party season to prevent weight gain. Learn healthy options and what junk foods to avoid.

If you plan to be or are eating for two it's all about what you put into your body. Learn about why organic is good, why alkaline foods help with conception to the benifits of fatty acids and more.

A healthy and flexible meal plan to help guide you to picture perfect abs!

How to go vegetarian - a healthy vegetarian starter’s guide - really helpful and clear. It talks about everything from who can become a vegetarian (Children? Teenagers? Even pregnant women?) To how to become a vegetarian, how to stay healthy on a vegetarian diet, and the vegetarian food pyramid. GREAT READ.