The Benefits of Balanced Diet

THE BENEFITS OF BALANCED DIET

Balanced diet is very important in our lives as a human who want to have a healthy life’s. Noble., (2000) said, healthy food is a food that have a sufficient nutrient for our physical and mental development. The food that we eat since our childhood might affect our health in the future. We have been taught since we were kid the way of balanced diet intake. If we do not take care about balanced diet, it will affect our health. So, in this situation I totally agree with the statement about a balanced diet affects our health and wellbeing. There are lots of benefits that we got when we are practicing a balanced diet in our life.

Firstly, the benefits that we can got from practicing a balanced diet is it help people to reduce the risk of the getting disease. Person who practices a healthy food in their lifestyle is such a healthy person. This type of person will be referring to food pyramid and eat the food in an enough scale. For example, a person who loves to eat plant foods more than others (meat and chicken), it can satisfy their hunger. This also can make a person easier to stay in their healthy weight and obesity can be prevented. Besides, proper developing cardiovascular disease and help to lower chance to get a cancer, we can have a plenty of food such as fruit and vegetables in our diet (Megan Ray., 2015). This shows us that, by having a balanced diet, a person can always in a good life and hard to get a disease.

Other than that, balanced diet also gives us a benefit for our mental health. This is because, when we are practicing having a balanced diet, we can have such a beautiful physical conditions and intelligent brain state. Neimary et al., (2012) said that ridicule and bullying will cause a person to suffer from depression because of their weight. This statement said that someone who are overweight will easily having a mental health issue. So, we need to prevent this happen to us. Furthermore, fruit such as tomatoes and avocado can protect our brain cell. We as students must eat a lot of fruits because it can help us to reduce our stress level. For example, citrus fruit. If you are having a hard time because you are so stress, you can have an oranges and grapefruits. Having orange in afternoon can help you to calming yourself from stress. At last, by having a balanced diet, we can also take care of our mental health and making sure that our brain always in a good condition.

Lastly, being able to control obesity also the benefits of balanced diet. As we can see, the amount of obesity children and adolescent aged five to 19 years old increased more than four – fold which is four percent to 18 percent globally between in 1975 to 2019 (World Health Organization ,n.d). So, to control these issues, we must practice a balanced diet. To control obesity, we need a healthy food such as fruit and vegetables. We all know that not all fruits and vegetables are tasty, but we need to eat these two foods for making sure that we are having a balanced diet and it can prevent us for having an obesity. Eat fruit and vegetables in an enough scale so we do not overtake those food. In short, a balanced diet helps us to prevent from getting an obesity and we can live our life happily by practicing a balanced diet.

In conclusions, as a person who really care about their health, we must be alert on what we eat every day. This is because, it might be dangerous if we do not take care about what we eat. Besides, we should be preparing our own eating schedule. The schedule can help us to be ready and preparing our food very well. In short, it can help us to having a healthy lifestyle.

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