Health CAT by Lily BRADSHAW-SAVILLE

benefits of a balanced diet

lebra7 — 2025-09-12 00:15:16 UTC

a balanced diet affects your life positively in many ways and is crucial to living a happy and healthy life. Balanced diets give you energy throughout the day, support growth, help you maintain a healthy weight, keeps your immune system strong, improves your mood and reduces risk of chronic diseases. These benefits are lifechanging and can improve mental health aswell.

The impact of a unbalanced diet

lebra7 — 2025-09-12 00:16:00 UTC

An unbalanced diet can take a negative toll on your body. Causing things like nutrient deficiencies, increased risk of chronic diseases such as type 2 diabetes, cancer, obesity and heart disease. A bad diet can also negatively impact your mental health. Unbalanced diets are really dangerous to your mental and physical health, especially if your still young and growing.

What does a balanced diet look like?

lebra7 — 2025-09-12 00:39:43 UTC

balanced diets changed depending on your age. For example, a balanced diet for a 13 year old looks like 2 serves of fruit, 2 1/2 serves of protein, 5-6 serves of carbohydrates, 3 1/2 serves of diary and 5- 5 1/2 serves of vegetables.

What does a unbalanced diet look like?

lebra7 — 2025-09-14 11:46:18 UTC

A diet can be unbalanced in many different ways. Weather its not eating enough vegetable's or carbohydrates, or eating lots sugary foods daily. And those are just a few examples. Its important to look at the recommended servings of each food group.

The five food groups

lebra7 — 2025-09-14 12:11:37 UTC

The five food groups include: Vegetables and legumes, Fruit, Grains , protein and dairy. Examples of foods in these categories are

Vegetables: spinach, carrot, cucumber

Fruit: kiwi, strawberry, blueberries

Grains: bread, rice, wheatbix

Protein: Chicken, beef, chickpeas

Dairy: Milk, Yoghurt, cheese

The importance macronutrients

lebra7 — 2025-09-14 12:13:47 UTC