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For a balanced diet 33 percent of your food should be fruits and vegetables. Dairy products should be 15 percent of your food intake, breads and starches should be 33 percent and fats and sugars should only be 7 percent. Proteins like meat, fish and beans should be 12 percent of your calorie intake.
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∙ 11y ago2000 calories, 65-85 gm of fat, 1500 gm of sodium and 400-600 gm of carbohydrates
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What food do you need in your body?
You need proteins, fats, carbohydrates, vitamins and minerals. Without balanced diet you may get many diseases.
What is the best source of minerals?
Supplementing the diet with vitamins and minerals may be one way to ensure a more balanced intake, but it's not the best way. Eating a balanced diet is a more logical step because supplementing a poor diet will have only a limited positive effect on health. Processed foods labeled "fortified" or "enriched" are supplemented with some vitamins and minerals, but still aren't as good as the natural food sources.
What does a pyramid represent?
The food pyramid is a representation of how much a person should eat per day of certain types of foods. Grains make up the largest part of the food pyramid diet.
What particles is your food made up of?
All types of things, carbohydratess, proteins, fats, sugars, dairy, and fiber! It is very important to have the right amount of all of these in your diet!
What are the biotic factors in a balanced food web?
A balanced food web must have a producer, such as a plant, to provide free energy from the sun. It also should have herbivores (to eat the plants and pass on its energy), and usually has carnivores and an apex predator (carnivore on top of the food chain)
Why do you need several different food types in a balanced diet?
we have to stay healthy
What are the 6 classes of food?
6 classes of food are balanced diet
What is the importance of balanced diet?
Food plays an important role in our life. Food gives us energy which helps us to do work. We also need food to grow and stay healthy. The food we eat every day is called our diet. We should eat a balanced diet. A diet that contains the right amount of carbohydrates, proteins and fats along with adequate amounts of water, minerals and vitamins is called a balanced diet. Nutrients are present in different amounts in different foods and hence we should consume different types of food to get proper nutrition.
How did the aborigines prevent diseases and have a balanced diet?
The Aborigines prevented diseases by eating certain bush medicines. They had a balanced diet by eating different food from different food groups.
What must you eat when your on balanced diet?
one of each food from the food groups
What are the food to consume during pregnancy?
A well balanced diet.
Is pizza healthy food?
As long as it is a part of a balanced diet.
What are the functions of food and drink in a childrens balanced diet?
juice
A balanced diet contains every essential?
Food value
How does the body get the immunity?
by taking proper balanced diet food.
What makes a balanced diet?
A balanced diet needs lots of fibre and carbohydrates. There are 7 main food groups which make up a balanced diet: - Water - Fibre dietary - Carbohydrates - Lipids - Proteins - Minerals - Vitamins
What constitutes a balanced diet?
A diet which constitutes all the essential quantities of food in proper quantity.
