get a balanced diet

What is a Balanced Diet?

Eating a balanced diet means choosing a wide variety of foods and drinks from all the food groups. This is because , different groups of foods have dfiferent nutrients inside them.The goal is to take in nutrients you need for health at the recommended levels because our body need different amount of different nutrients.

our body need carbohydrate for energy, protein for synthesis of connective tissue, energy, amono acids, enzyme. fat for energy and adipose tissue also hormone. we also need to take different fatty acid which is omega 3 and omega 6.

The World Health Organization (WHO) makes the following 5 recommendations with respect to both populations and individuals:

1.       Eat roughly the same amount of calories that your body is using. A healthy weight is a balance between energy consumed and energy that is 'burnt off'.

2.       Increase consumption of plant foods, particularly fruits, vegetables, legumes, whole grains and nuts.

3.       Limit intake of fats, and prefer less unhealthy unsaturated fats to saturated fats and trans fats.

4.       Limit the intake of sugar. A 2003 report recommends less than 10% simple sugars.

5.       Limit salt / sodium consumption from all sources and ensure that salt is iodized.

6.       Other recommendations include:

·         Essential micronutrients such as vitamins and certain minerals.

·         Avoiding directly poisonous (e.g. heavy metals) and carcinogenic (e.g. benzene) substances.

·         Avoiding foods contaminated by human pathogens (e.g. E. coli, tapeworm eggs).