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Nutrition Facts - Balanced Diet
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A balanced diet is a diet, which provides sufficient amounts of carbohydrates, fats, proteins, vitamins and minerals nutrients to maintain good health and with a small provision for periods of leanness or scarcity.

Health is defined as a state of complete physical, mental and social wellbeing, not just the absence of disease or infirmity.

It is easy to follow a well-balanced healthy diet when you judiciously combine all the basic food groups. A simple way to do this is to follow the food pyramid.


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Posted by:  dev_kelvin(Guest)  Posted on: 11/02/2011
we eat to shit wel and well

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Posted by:  lew95  Posted on: 03/22/2009
is this the importance of balanced diet???

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Posted by:  AshokJaswani(Guest)  Posted on: 12/02/2008
Excellant detail. Definately going to help the mankind.

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Posted by:  shree(Guest)  Posted on: 11/17/2008
You must have carbohydrate, protein, fat, vitamins, minerals salts and fibre in the correct proportions. If there is not enough protein, you will not be able to grow properly and you will not be able to repair yourself i.e. wounds will not heal properly. If you do not have enough energy containing foods you will feel very tired, you will not have enough energy. If you have too much energy containing foods you will become overweight. If you think that you are overweight you might try taking more exercise to "burn off" some of the excess food which you ate at you last meal.

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