A balanced diet consists of foods from all food groups eaten in moderation, including carbohydrates, proteins, fats, vitamins, minerals, and fiber. It helps ensure intake of necessary nutrients. Alcohol is absorbed in the stomach and intestines and affects the mind and body. High amounts can cause breathing to stop and death, while regular consumption is linked to inflammation and destruction of the liver, edema, osteoporosis, and irregular heartbeats. Fatty foods provide energy but saturated and trans fats are linked to high cholesterol, heart disease, and diabetes if consumed in excess.

1. A BALANCED DIET, ALCOHOL, AND
FATTY FOODS
By Cindy Liao
Johnelie To

2. WHAT IS A BALANCED DIET?
 Eating a balanced diet means
choosing a wide variety of foods and
drinks from all the food groups. It also
means eating certain things is
moderation, like saturated fat, trans
fat, cholesterol, salt and alcohol. It
helps you take in nutrients you need
for health.

3. A BALANCED DIET MUST HAVE:
 Energy nutrients
Carbohydrates
proteins
fats
 nonenergy nutrients
vitamins
mineral salts
fiber

4. EXAMPLES OF BALANCED DIET:
 FOOD PYRAMID

5.  A MYPLATE

6. ALCOHOL
 Is a liquid which contain ethyl (a
flammable, colorless liquid)
 20 percent is absorbed in stomach and the 80
percent goes to the small intestines
 Once the alcohol is absorbed into the tissue, it
affects your mind and body

7. BAD EFFECTS
 High amounts of alcohol may cause breathing to
stop, then it will cause death
 Inflammation (immune response to injury or
infection causing pain) and destruction of liver cells
(hepatitis)
 Edema (is the swelling caused by fluid retention)
 Osteoporosis (the bones become thin and weak)
 Irregular heartbeat and heart enlargement

8. EDEMA

9. OSTEOPOROSIS

10. FATTY FOODS
 Fatty foods are food nutrients in the
form of carbohydrates that are not
utilized at once to sustain your body’s
energy needs are converted into fats.
That’s why if you eat too much
rice, bread, or corn every day, you will
gain weight.

11. TYPES:
 Saturated fat (immerse with is hydrogen atoms)
 trans fat (the result of an artificial process
converting vegetable oil into a more stable form of
shortening)
 polyunsaturated fat (no hydrogen atoms at every
available bonding site on the molecule. )
 monounsaturated fat (have one of these bonds
which lack hydrogen.)

12. FUNCTIONS:
 Fat furnish your body with energy
 Fats provides more body energy than
carbohydrates because fats contain more food
calories per unit of mass
 Fats can be stored in the body so when the body
needs energy, it uses the stored fats.

13.  Fats also become a very important structure of your
cell membrane—phospholipids layer. They are also
used in the conduction(movement) of nerve
impulses.

14. BAD EFFECTS
 saturatedand trans fat are linked to
high LDL (bad) cholesterol, heart
disease, and diabetes.