A healthy diet should provide a good balance of nutrients but should ideally also be tasty and enjoyable. Dietary advice within medicine is designed to encourage people to eat a diet which contains the correct balance of nutrients and where portion size is sensible. The complete avoidance of any particular food is rarely recommended. It is rare for doctors to need to give detailed dietary advice but signposting to accurate sources of information is beneficial.
This is a companion discussion topic for the original article at https://patient.info/doctor/primary-care/healthy-diet-and-enjoyable-eating