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Balanced Diet, Health And Nutrition
A balanced diet comprising of healthy and diverse foods is key to
promoting good health. After all, we are what we eat - Research
continues to prove that eating healt hy food promotes good health
and unhealthy food habits lead to a diseased body. Foods contain
vital nutrients that aid our body’s metabolic function. However, a
lack of consumption of these nutrients or feeding upon the wrong
kinds of food leads to an accumulation of toxins within the body,
resulting in chronic diseases in the long run.
A nutritious diet while ensuring overall well being, helps to
maintain a healthy Body Mass Index (BMI), reduces the risk of
several debilitating diseases like cancer, cardiovascular
ailments, diabetes, osteoporosis and stroke. Thus a nutritious
diet is important in the prevention and cure of various diseases.
Healthy Food Groups
Since no single food group can nourish the body with all the vital
ingredients it requires, it is important that we consume a variety
of healthy foods to derive the nutrition our body needs. There are
five main food groups, they are:
 Fruits
Vegetables
Cereals and Pulses
Dairy
Poultry, Fish and Meat products
A healthy balanced diet of these five food groups ensures
essential vitamins, minerals and dietary fiber. The food group
serving size will depend upon various factors like age, activity
level, body size and gender. It is also important that one eat a
variety of foods from within and across the food groups. As some
foods from within a food group provide more nutrients than others.
This will ensure that one gets the maximum recommended nutrition
from the food group; besides the food variety will make for an
interesting meal.
In conclusion, it must be noted that allopathic medicine treats
the symptoms rather than the root cause of the disease, which is
usually caused by wrong eating habits
 leading to an accumulation
of toxins within the system. Whereas a nutritious diet can rectify
underlying causes of diseases and restore one to wholeness of mind
and body. Once we realize the connection between a wholesome
balanced diet and good health, our food will be our medicine and
maintaining good health will be a matter of making the right food
choices and leading a healthy lifestyle.
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