Food and Nutrition zone

Food components for balanced diet Diet; a balanced diet and our health.  A healthy diet is good for physical and mental health.  It can reduce the risk of obesity, diabetes, heart disease, hypertensi on, and cancer .   A balanced diet provides the nutrients that your body needs to work efficiently and that is necessary for health. It is a diet which contains different food groups in specific proportions and quantities, which provides the body with essential nutrients, fluid, and adequate food energy. For a normal adult man, a balanced diet consists of two or more portion from the group containing most protein and three or more portions of fruits and vegetables. There are 7 essential nutrients or factors for a balanced diet : Carbohydrates, proteins, fat, fibre, vitamins, minerals and water Carbohydrates:  Main energy source 40-45% daily intake of calories Food sources: Grains (refined & unrefined), wheat, maize, oats, corn, flour, rice, pasta, noodles, potatoe...

Junk foods; seems tasty but bad for health. Junk food are defined as processed foods with very low nutritional value that contributes lots of calories and are often high in kilojoules, in salt, sugar and saturated fats. They are also known as discretionary choices. Generally people use the term junk food to define a food that has few of the very few nutrients that your body needs, and excess of added sugars and salts, spices and fats which your body can easily get too much of. What does junk food include? Most junk food falls into the categories of either snack food or fast food. And then there are things like breakfast cereals. They seem simple enough, but some of them could definitely be considered junk food, as they mostly contain sugar or high-fructose corn syrup and white flour or milled corn. Popular snack foods are usually commercially prepared and packaged, like chips, cheese puffs, candy bars, snack cakes.  Foods commonly considered junk foods include salted snack foods, g...