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How important is a balanced diet in maintaining good health?
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- Tue Oct 07 2003

... How important is a balanced diet in maintaining good health? A healthy and well balanced diet is the body's main energy source. In adults, it encourages regeneration and self-healing within the body. In children, it constitutes the building blocks for future health as well as producing energy. A well balanced diet will provide the body with all the essential nutrients it needs. This will be achieved by eating a variety of foods from each food group. A pyramid of food groups is shown in appendix A. There are many different nutrients in each food group; about 50 are known to be essential to human life. Carbohydrates, proteins, minerals, fats and vitamins are the five types of food nutrients. Water can also be classed as a nutrient as it is essential to life. The following assignment aims to describe the functions of the major food nutrients above. The recommended daily














