Wednesday, October 27, 2010

What does DIET stand for?

DIET, according to me is the Distributed Intake for Exact Temperance. And a balanced diet helps you ensure the balance of the intake. But for many the distributed intake turns out to become a disturbed intake.

A balanced diet is very essential for your body to have all the kinds of nutrients in right proportion. Generally, the cause for most of the diseases is the imbalance of such nutrients either due to deficiency or excess of it. A healthy diet serves a good balance of these very nutrients. Different food groups have varied amounts of nutrients in them. To simplify, these groups can be classified majorly into Fruits & Vegetables, Dairy products, Cereals and pulses, grain products and so on.

Each group provides its own bulk of nutrition. Starting with, cereals and pulses which have high amount of proteins which makes your body grow and also help the healing of wounds. Coming to dairy products such as milk, curd, and butter, they have abundance of carbohydrates, fats and calcium which provides energy to the body. The balanced diet comprises of fruits and vegetables, beans, pulses, fish, meat or eggs along with good of milk and curd but with less amount of food containing fat or sugar.

Each nutrient performs necessary functions in your body and so their intake is useful. Of course, the amount of intake of such food-nutrients differs from person to person depending on factors like age, gender and body-size. A balanced diet helps you maintain proper body-weight, enhance your immune power thereby reducing the risk of so many diseases like blood-pressure, diabetes, heart ailments, etc and mainly keeps you fit and fine.

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