Balanced Diet Chart | Ways to Maintain a Balanced Healthy Diet

Balanced Diet Chart | Ways to Maintain a Balanced Healthy Diet

Today i want to discuss about a very important topic of our day to day life. That's balanced diet. Various

diseases are happen in our body due to improper diet & regimen. Today's 21st century's health problems which makes all peoples troublesome such like diabetes, obesity, hypertension, cancer etc; are causes due to bad food habit & in other side in some slumareas & village areas,peoples are suffering from nutritional deficiency disease due to poor nutrition, improper intake of healthy food.

What is Balanced Diet? 

It is a diet that contains a variety of foods, in such quantities and proportions that the need for energy and all the nutrients(proteins, fats,carbohydrates, vitamins and minerals)is adequately met for maintaining health, vitality and general well-being for a person, including a small provision for extra nutrients to withstand the needs in future emergencies such as leanness.

The requirements for a healthy diet can be met from a variety of plant based & animal based foods,although a non-animal source of vitamin B12 is needed for those following a vegetarian diet. A healthy diet supports energy needs and provides for human nutrition without exposure to toxicity or excessive weight gain from consuming more calories than the body requires. A healthy diet, in addition to exercise, may lower disease risks, such as obesity, heart disease, type 2 diabetes, hypertension & cancer. 

In constructing a balanced diet, the following principle should be adopted.

(1)Protein requirement should be 15 to 20 % of daily intake.

(2)Fat requirement should be 20 to 30 %

(3)Remaining food energy should be constituted by carbohydrates.

So every patient should take a proper advice from his/her Consultant Doctor and should take a Balanced Diet according to his/her disease condition. Thank you.
Dr Priyanka Baisya