IMPORTANCE OF A BALANCED DIET

Healthy foods is a very important aspect of living a healthy lifestyle. A balanced diet comprises of fruits such as
apples and mangoes which are rich in vitamin, vegetables such as carrots, leafy greens, legumes like beans and
peas, carbohydrates and also grains such as quinoa, brown rice, barley, buckwheat. Eating a balanced diet is
healthy for the body. A balanced diet allows you to have better sleep, improves your immune system to fight
against bacteria causing diseases. In children, a balanced diet reduces frequent infections and underdeveloped
body growth but instead leads to normal growth and development of a child. Another importance of a healthy
diet is supplying nutrients and supplements needed by the body to work effectively. It also reduces the chances
of getting chronic illness such as diabetes and stroke. A balanced diet also enhances your mental focus and
brain functioning. Some other benefits of a balanced diet is improvement of skin. Some skin diseases such as
Acne. This is mostly caused by eating foods that are on either fat and sugar or foods that are high on glycemia
index. A balanced diet rich in vegetables and whole grains and low-fat dairy can help to reduce the risk of heart
diseases by maintaining blood pressure and cholesterol levels. A diet rich in calcium keeps your teeth and
bones and can help to slow bone loss when one starts aging. A balanced diet is not only taking the correct food
with the correct amount of nutrients but also about the amount of food consumed.

A balanced diet is also for important for students. First, it helps them concentrate in their studies and also gives
them energy to work all day, The diet ensures that the student has enough energy to participate is school
activities such as sports such as basketball and football, dancing, singing and all the daily activities in the school.
Research has shown that students who eat a balanced diet are healthy, well behaved and bright since their
minds are able to concentrate during their studies. If you conduct some research, you will find out that the
students who do well in games strictly follow a balanced diet to ensure the effective functioning of their
bodies.
Eating a balanced diet also has other benefits apart from physical benefits. A healthy balanced diet improves
the digestion of food, reduces the risk of getting diseases such as cancer and also reduces stress of the body. It
is also important for a pregnant mother to feed on a well balanced diet. The diet provides important nutrients
to the infant so as to have proper development and to avoid complications during labor and also provides the
mother with the energy needed to carry the pregnancy and also strength during labor.
A balanced diet is also used in hospitals as treatement of some dieases such as cancer and acne. Patients that
undergo cancer and treatment are put on a strict balanced diet to help in healing.