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Healthy and a Balance Diet

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A healthy diet is one that helps maintain or improve general health. A healthy diet provides the body with essential nutrition: essential fatty acids, vitamins, minerals, and calories. Where lack of calories is not an issue, a properly balanced diet (in addition to exercise) is also thought to be important for lowering health risks, such as obesity, heart disease, diabetes, hypertension and cancer.

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What is a healthy balanced diet?

When it comes to healthy eating the most important thing to remember is that there are no such things as ‘good’ and ‘bad’ foods. The occasional biscuit or packet of crisps isn’t going to do any harm as long as the rest of your diet is a healthy balance. The secret to a healthy diet is balance.

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Why is a balanced diet important?A balanced diet is one that provides the body with all the essential nutrients, vitamins and minerals required to maintain cells, tissues and organs as well as to function correctly.  A diet that is lacking in nutrients can lead to many different health problems ranging from tiredness and lack of energy to serious problems with the function of vital organs and lack of growth and development.

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Vitamins

Vitamins are chemicals needed by the body to maintain good health. Each vitamin does a different job in the body and so a lack of any one vitamin can seriously affect our health. Vitamins are required by the body only in tiny amounts.

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Mineral salts

The body needs mineral salts only in tiny amounts. Different mineral salts are needed for different purpose. Liver, kidney, red meats, egg yolk, and dark green leafy vegetable contain a lot of iron is needed to make red blood cells carry oxygen to all our cells.

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Fats can be used by the body to produce energy in addition fats can be stored in the body for a long time. Some of this body fat helps to keep us warm. Some of it is used by the body to release energy whenever we don't eat enough food. It can lead to heart disease.

Fats

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Proteins supply the body with some energy. But the more important role of proteins is to help our body grow. They are used to make new cells and to repair damaged ones. What happens when we don't get enough proteins in our diet?We will not grow properly and our muscles will become weak.

Proteins

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Water

Water makes up seventy percent of our body weight.Every time we sweat, urinate or breathe, we lose a lot of water. We should drink six to eight glasses of fluid each day to make sure we're getting enough water for our body.

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In Last,Balance of good health:All foods can be part of a healthy diet – it’s important for health to achieve the right balance and include a variety of foods. Eating a healthy, balanced diet and staying active are two of the most important factors to help live a long and healthy life.


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