What Is a Balanced Diet?
A
balanced diet contains an adequate amount of vitamins, minerals, protein, fat,
and carbohydrates required by our body to maintain our health and to fight
against many diseases and bacteria which can cause problems to our health.
In
the human body, there are 16 main different minerals required and several in
small amounts. The 24 minerals required by the human body which are essential
for health are calcium, phosphorous, potassium, sodium, chloride, magnesium, iron,
zinc, iodine, sulfur, cobalt, copper, fluoride,
manganese, and selenium.
To
maintain our good health one should always follow a good and healthy routine by
taking a balanced diet containing all these minerals in the required quantity
by the human body. These days people prefer to cook less and eat more. To eat
tasty, not healthy.
If
we look at our current situations many people are suffering from diabetes,
typhoid, viral, thyroid, various kind of allergies, deficiency of iron,
migraines, etc., as these days people mostly prefer junk food over healthy food
which doesn’t fulfill all the minerals required by a human body. And not just
minerals there are various vitamins required by the human body.
Vitamins Required by Our Body
First
of all, these discuss the 13 essential vitamins required by a human body
Vitamins
help the human body to grow and work to its full potential and its limits.
Vitamins A, C, D, E, K, and B vitamins (thiamine, riboflavin, niacin,
pantothenic acid, biotin, B6, B12, and folate).
Here
are some vitamins used and their sources-
1. Vitamin A- Vitamin A helps us to acquire healthy vision, nourished and healthy skin, strong bones and teeth, and healthy reproduction criteria. Proper consumption of liver, eggs, fish, milk, carrots, sweet potatoes, pumpkin, and spinach can be a good source of vitamin A.
2. Vitamin B1- It helps in converting food into energy and is critical for nerve system. We can get it from consuming pork, soy, and watermelon. Tomato, spinach.
3. Vitamin
B2- This vitamin also converts our intake of food into energy and also supports
healthy skin with better hair growth and blood and brain. Dairy, meat, green
leaf veggies, enriched wheat, and oysters are good sources of vitamin B2.
4. Vitamin
B3- This vitamin is essential for a healthy nervous system and converts food
into energy for the perfect working of the human body system. Some good sources
of vitamin B3 can be beef, chicken, shrimp, avocado, peanuts, tomato, and spinach.
5. Vitamin
B6- Mood, appetite, and sleep all of these improve through this vitamin and it
also helps in making red blood cells whenever needed in a required amount.
Chicken, tofu, banana, watermelon, fish, and legumes are some good sources of
vitamin B6.
6. Vitamin
B7- Glucose is an important thing in our body and this vitamin helps to break
down glucose by helping in converting food into energy. Some good sources of
this vitamin are whole grains, eggs, almonds, soybeans, and fish.
7. Vitamin
B9- Our whole body is made up of cells. On average a body contains 30 to 40
trillion cells that repair, die, etc. And this vitamin helps to generate new
cell creation and DNA synthesis.
8. Vitamin
B12- Hemoglobin is a very important part of our body also known as red blood
cells which are made by vitamin B12 and it also helps in breaking down fatty
acids and amino acids.
9. Vitamin
C- It improves our immune system, also acts as an antioxidant, and helps to
make new cells.
Why All Kind of Food Is Important?
Every
mineral is important in our human body. Even when a person tries to lose weight
and follows a strict diet, a nutritionist never suggests they not eat. Instead,
they make their health fewer calories and less fat-containing items as they
also contain some type of minerals and vitamins, protein and the required
amount of glucose in our body which is required by them during their diet and
to stay healthy and fit otherwise it may cause them serious health issues like
weakness, diabetes, lack of energy which may affect them physically as well as
mentally as it causes anxiety issues too.
Likewise
goes for people who try to gain weight, they too need to follow a proper diet
with some sort of exercise as it gives a better structure to the human body.
It
depends a lot on how you take your diet while having your workout days. Most
nutritionists prefer that if a person is losing weight they should avoid eating
just after dinner and if they are trying to gain they should immediately have
something full of protein just after their workout sections.
Written by Aditi Singh
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