Saturday, August 29, 2009

Balanced Diet for Weight Loss

A popular and important question today everybody, youths especially, is how to lose weight without comprising one's health. The answer, quite simply, is maintaining a balanced diet. A balanced diet is one that contains all the six groups of nutrients; carbohydrates, proteins, fats, vitamins, fibers, mineral salts and water in correct proportions. A healthy diet is the same as a balanced diet. Each of the above groups have a distinct function in the human body. They provide vital energy to life processes like wear and tear of tissues, growth and development. It also helps in avoiding some fatal diseases like diabetes, heart disease and high blood pressure. However the dietary requirements of these nutrients can be different for different groups of people, depending on their age, sex and physical activity.

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