Food and Diet
- A Well Balanced Diet
- Balance in Life and Health
- Food and Caloric Table
- Food and Deficiency Diseases
- Fiber Sources and Benefits
- Fiber Quantity and Supplements
- Food for Mood
- Food for Mood Distraction
- Food and Nutrition Facts
- Greens - Power House of Nutrition
- Good Nutrition Woman's Health
- Health Diet After Delivery
- Health Benefits - Royal Jelly
- Health Benefits of Sea Food
- Health Food - Carbohydrate Counting
- Health Food - Vegetable Soups and Salads
- Health Food - Protein Nuts and Natural Chocolates
- Health Food - Risk From Salt
- Health Food -Vitamins and Minerals
- How Food is Related to Health and Fitness
- How Should Our Food Be?
- Learn Your Food Groups
- Vitamin-B Sources and Benefits
Healthy Life Factors
Fitness & Weight Loss
Food and Nutrition
Balanced diet
For being healthy and strong, you must eat the right amount of food containing the right amount of each nutrient component. Such a food is balanced food. A meal in which you eat balanced food is called a balanced diet.
Balanced diet has three important qualities
- It is rich in essential quality. Such as vitamins, minerals and certain amino acids.
- It provides enough energy raw materials for growth of cells, tissues, and organs.
- it provides the energy required by the body
Nutrition and the importance of the food
Food and nutrition is necessary for the survival of organisms, because they are essential for the growth of the healthy body. Food and nutrition is also essential for creating resistance against the disease causing germs and for giving energy to the body. Activities like in take of food, digestion, absorption, metabolism and excretion together constitute nutrition. Nutrition enables us to grow well and enjoy good health.
Constituents of food.
Everyday, we eat varieties of small food items like wheat, rice, pulses, greens, vegetables, fruits, and milk. The nutrients, like carbohydrates, proteins, lipids, vitamins and mineral salts are present in these food items and they perfume some important functions. Balanced diet.
A particular type of food itself does not give all required nutrients so, taking different type of diet. A nutritionally adequate diet containing proportionate proteins, fats, vitamins, minerals and water are known as balanced diet. It should also contain some quantity of indigestible fiber content food to avoid constipation
Balanced Diet Chart
Food Stuffs |
Average Man |
Average Woman |
Adolescent (13-15 Yrs.) |
Child (5 Yrs) |
Cereals (Rice, Wheat etc… |
520 |
440 |
420 |
270 |
Pulses (Various Dhal-ground nuts, coconut, seeds can substitute) |
50 |
45 |
45 |
35 |
Other Vegetables (Raw or Cooked) |
70 |
40 |
50 |
50 |
Roots and Tubers (Potato, Sweet Potato, Yam Tapioca) |
60 |
50 |
30 |
20 |
Milk |
200 |
150 |
250 |
250 |
Fats and Oil |
45 |
25 |
40 |
25 |
Sugar and Jaggery |
35 |
20 |
45 |
40 |
Note : Non-vegetarians can replace pulses = 2 eggs = 50 gms meat = fish