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title: "What is a balanced diet?"  
description: "What is a balanced diet?"  
author: "Chirag agarwal"  
published: 2018-01-03  
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# What is a balanced diet?

What is a balanced [diet](https://www.mindstick.com/blog/12877/diet-tips-on-losing-weight-fast)?

## Answers

### Answer by AMANDEEP SINGH

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Well, people say, **talking about balanced diet that it includes a whole lot of things varying from proteins, fats, carbs, fibers, vitamins, minerals and water.** So, the diet can be a combination of your own considering the given specifications. As we know, nothing can be PERFECT, so no diet plan can be rated as a perfect balanced diet. You must do a homework for figuring it out according to your needs and the call of the body.

**I can suggest you the following check list of a balanced diet, which you can modify as per your wish, I got this from a nutritionist once.**

- **Carbohydrates** should get intake of **65%** of the calories.
- **25%** by **proteins**
- **10%** by **fats**.

A person’s diet relies on his/her type of work and daily routine. For a man indulging in any laborious work should have ideal intake of 2400 k calories. For woman it is 2000k calories. It varies if the woman is pregnant or lactating. **And one can get a complete diet of approximately 2400 kcal energy from the following list:**

- Cereals - 400g
- Pulses - 40g
- Fruits -50g
- Green leafy vegetables - 50g
- Milk - 100ml
- Roots and tubers- 50g. (it can be substituted with green leafy vegetables)
- Oils and fats - 30g.

If the person is a non-vegetarian or egg-itarian the daily quantity of pulses intake can be reduced. \
**Thanks for reading!!**


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