There is a difference between a balanced diet and an adequate diet.
What is a balanced diet? A balanced diet results when you do not consume one nutrient at the expense of another, but rather get appropriate amounts of all
What is an Adequate diet?
An adequate diet is the required amount of nutrients needed based on the body composition of an individual.
The major difference is that Adequate diet means meeting the total demands of your body needs while a balanced diet isn’t.
A healthy diet includes the following: Fruit, vegetables, legumes (e.g. lentils and beans), nuts, and whole grains (e.g. unprocessed maize, millet, oats, wheat, and brown rice).
Each food group has important nutrients.
The amount of each food you need will vary during your life, depending on factors such as how active you are and whether or not you are growing, pregnant, breastfeeding and more.
Our body composition seems different. However, whenever our diet is inadequate, we tend to suffer for it.
There are lot of consequences for malnutrition such as;
- Weight loss
- Weak immune system
- Poor body development
e.t.c.
How can you improve your diet?
See you in the next episode.
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