Speaker: Why is a healthy diet important? Jeannette Bessinger: Diet is important because it provides us with a fuel that we need to about our daily business, but in addition to that the food that we eat is converted into the tissue that make up our body. So the content that what we are eating actually transforms into the tissues of our body's, so it needs to be high quality, so we have high quality body. It truly are why you eat. In addition to that a diet actually effect how you feel. It can even affect how you think, and it also effects how you look.