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    A Balanced Diet

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    A balanced diet provides the right amount of nutrients from seven components: carbohydrates, protein, fats, vitamins, minerals, fiber, and water. It matches your energy needs. Carbohydrates and fats provide energy while protein builds tissues. Vitamins and minerals aid growth and metabolism. Fiber prevents constipation while water replaces losses. The right amount varies by age, gender, health, occupation, size, climate, and metabolism.

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    A balanced diet provides the right amount of nutrients from seven components: carbohydrates, protein, fats, vitamins, minerals, fiber, and water. It matches your energy needs. Carbohydrates and fats provide energy while protein builds tissues. Vitamins and minerals aid growth and metabolism. Fiber prevents constipation while water replaces losses. The right amount varies by age, gender, health, occupation, size, climate, and metabolism.

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    A balanced diet provides the right amount of nutrients from seven components: carbohydrates, protein, fats, vitamins, minerals, fiber, and water. It matches your energy needs. Carbohydrates and fats provide energy while protein builds tissues. Vitamins and minerals aid growth and metabolism. Fiber prevents constipation while water replaces losses. The right amount varies by age, gender, health, occupation, size, climate, and metabolism.

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    A balanced diet provides the right amount of nutrients from seven components: carbohydrates, protein, fats, vitamins, minerals, fiber, and water. It matches your energy needs. Carbohydrates and fats provide energy while protein builds tissues. Vitamins and minerals aid growth and metabolism. Fiber prevents constipation while water replaces losses. The right amount varies by age, gender, health, occupation, size, climate, and metabolism.

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    A Balanced

    Diet
    A Balance Diet
    A balance diet means a diet that
    matched your energy needs and
    gives you the right amount of
    nutrients and fibre
    1. Carbohydrates
    2. Protein
    n e n t s 3. Fats / Lipids
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    7 comp hy
    lt 4. Vitamins
    of a he a
    5. Minerals
    diet 6. Fibre
    7. Water
    Eating a right things
    Carbohydrates
    There are broken down to glucose to provide fast-
    release energy
    Proteins
    Provides the fabric for most of the soft
    tissues. A good protein intake is essential
    for growth and repair
    Eating a right things
    Lipids / Fats
    These contain lots of energy. Up to 70% of our energy
    is supllied by fats, these can be stored for slow-release
    energy

    Vitamin
    Aid growth / increase resistance to infection
    / aids metabolism / assist in avoding
    deficiencies
    Eating a right things
    Fibre
    Cannot digest roughage, but we need fibre to prevent
    constipation

    Water
    As most of the body is water. We need to
    constantly replace that which is lost in urine
    and sweating. This will aid in avoiding
    dehydration
    Eating the right ammount

    Age You need more as a teenager than when you do when


    you are 40 because your metabolism slows down

    Gender Males generally need more energy than female

    State of a person's health condition certainly varies, depending


    on the condition of the person at a certain time
    Health
    Occupation More active you are, more energy you require
    Eating the right ammount
    Size or body An individual with smaller body size has a larger
    Weight surface area per unit volume than a person of a
    bigger body size

    Climate Temperature affect to the energy needs


    r s Wo r k
    Pai
    Energy content of food
    Energy content of food

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