A balanced diet provides the body with all essential nutrients, vitamins, and minerals. It includes proteins, fats, carbohydrates, vitamins, minerals, and water. A balanced diet is important for maintaining overall health and preventing issues like obesity, heart disease, and cancer. The key is achieving the right balance of foods rather than categorizing foods as strictly "good" or "bad".

1. Healthy and a Balance Diet

2. 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.

3. 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.

4. 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.

5. 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.

6. 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.

7. 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

8. 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

9. 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.

10. 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.