- by Dr Sheetal Bhatia
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- Feb 03 2017
Balance your diet!
- Opting for a balanced, adequate and varied diet is an important step towards a happy and healthy lifestyle.
- Vitamins and minerals in the diet are vital to boost immunity and healthy development,
- A healthy diet can protect the human body against certain types of diseases, in particular non-communicable diseases such as obesity, diabetes, cardiovascular diseases, some types of cancer and skeletal conditions.
- Healthy diets can also contribute to an adequate body weight.
- Healthy eating is a good opportunity to enrich life by experimenting with different foods from different cultures, origins and with different ways to prepare food.
Balanced Diets for Adults
Food item | Adult Man | Adult Woman | ||||
| Sedentary work | Moderate work | Heavy work | Sedentary work | Moderate work | Heavy work | |
| Cereals and millets | 470 | 550 | 750 | 370 | 450 | 575 |
| Pulses | 40 | 60 | 60 | 40 | 45 | 50 |
| Leafy vegetables | 100 | 100 | 100 | 100 | 100 | 100 |
| Other vegetables | 60 | 70 | 80 | 40 | 40 | 50 |
| Roots and tubers | 50 | 60 | 80 | 50 | 50 | 60 |
| Fruits | 30 | 30 | 30 | 30 | 30 | 30 |
| Milk | 150 | 200 | 250 | 100 | 150 | 200 |
| Fats and oils | 30 | 40 | 45 | 20 | 25 | 30 |
| Sugar / Jaggery | 30 | 40 | 50 | 25 | 30 | 30 |
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