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What is a balanced diet?

A balanced diet basically needs to contain sufficient amounts of vitamins, carbohydrates, proteins, fats, fibre etc to suit the age and lifestyle of the person being considered.

Vitamins
Essentially these are chemicals required by the body, the different vitamins effect different parts of the body
Carbohydrates
We get most of our carbohydrates from starch in our food
Proteins
Required for growth and energy
Fats
Fats contain elements that we need

The dilema for many families is ensuring a balanced diet for the family without having to spend extra money on the more expensive health foods.

Diet would appear to influence children’s behaviour. I have seen children drink orange juice or eat coloured sweets and go completely wild. It is probably not the food itself but the colourings, preservatives and flavours added to the food. Interesting studies from several youth institutions show how the behaviour of the inmates can be controlled by changing their diet!

Health as an adult is influenced by their diet as children! A really unpleasant statistic is that the current generation of parents in the UK is the first one where the children, on average, will die before their parents! The diet of the younger generation is clearly harming them. There is something wrong with it.
This is not the place for such a discussion and there are clearly other factors involved as well, such as not taking enough exercise, or smoking or drinking too much alcohol!
What parents can do is to limit the ‘bad’ foods and teach their children how to eat healthily.

 

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