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Topic Content:
- Definition of a Balanced Diet
- Importance of a Balanced Diet
What is a Balanced Diet?
A diet which contains all the classes of food and roughages in the right proportion, which is used for body growth and development, is called a balanced or an adequate diet.
Importance of a Balanced Diet:
The importance of a balanced diet is listed below;
1. A balanced diet provides natural disease prevention.
2. Weight control.
3. Proper sleep without the use of sleeping pills.
4. It prevents malnutritionMalnutrition refers to deficiencies, excesses, or imbalances in a person's intake of energy and/or nutrients. More.
5. To meet your daily nutritional needs and enjoy a higher overall quality of life.
6. It provides the energyEnergy is the ability to do work. Energy exists in several forms such as heat, kinetic or mechanical energy, light, potential energy, and electrical energy. Units of Energy: The SI unit... More needed for activities of life.