Balanced Diet
Balanced Diet: Overview
This topic covers concepts, such as, Obesity, Role of Calcium in Our Body, Energy from Various Food Components & Effects of Unbalanced Diet etc.
Important Questions on Balanced Diet
In a balanced diet, all the nutrients are present in the _____ proportion.
Which component of a healthy, balanced diet helps with constipation?
What do you mean by the term 'Balanced diet'?
Who am I?
I am liquid and white in colour. You should drink at least two glasses of me every day. Who am l?
Learn to have a balanced meal.
Which one is a healthy breakfast? Plate A or Plate B?
Serve yourself a balanced lunch in Plate C (draw food items and colour them).
There should be at least one food from each group.
Solve the jumbled word and complete the sentence.
A person that eats carbohydrates in excess might suffer from _____. (OSITYBE)
Vegetarian food is better than non-vegetarian food for health. Discuss.
Ranjan loves to play cricket. Last year he won the intra-school trophy for best batsman.
To win the title of man of the match, this year he had practiced day and night and had even skipped several meals. But his coach observed that his performance was decreasing day by day. What could be the possible reason for this?
Select the answer that gives you correct information about roughage or dietary fibre in your diet
a. It helps us to remove the undigested waste out of the body
b. It is used to make clothes
c. It is found only in foods that come from plant sources
d. It is found in man-made foods such as vermicelli, noodles, rice noodles which are thread- like
State True or False: ‘Vegetarians do not have balanced meal because the only source of protein is that derived from animals’.
Sanjay wants to grow healthy. Help him to choose the component of food that would make his diet as balanced.
(i) Proteins
(ii) Carbohydrates and Fats
(iii) Water and Roughage
(iv) Vitamins and Minerals
Ravi is a non-vegetarian. He eats lots of eggs, fish and meat. He thinks he does not need to eat fruits and vegetables and his meal is balanced. What effect it might cause to his health?
Four friends Suresh, Mukesh, Geeta and Sita went to a restaurant and ordered their meals from the menu as shown below:
Which of them is on a strict diet to lose weight?
What is obesity? What effects can it have on your health?
What do you mean by balanced diet and malnutrition?
Explain the effects of fast food on our body.
