AS WE ALL KNOW TO KEEP OURSELVES FIT AND HEALTHY WE NEED A BALANCE DIET.

IT CONSIST OF 6 NUTRIENTS.

1.PROTIENS

2.CARBOHYDRATES

3.FATS

4.VITAMINS

5.MINERALS

6.FIBRES

PROTIENS ARE ONE OF THE MOST IMORTANT NUTRIENTS.

IT IS CALLED THE BODY BUILDINGS NUTRIENT. IT HELPS US IN OUR GROWTH! SOME OF THE MOST VITAL FOODS ARE ……………………………

CARBOHYDRATES GIVES LONG TERM ENERGY TO THE BODY.

IT IS VERY HELPFUL TO US IN GIVING ENERGY.

IT IS ALSO CALLED ENERGY GIVING NUTRENT.

Fats are the energy giving nutrient. It consist of mostly oily substances.

VITAMINS ARE ONE OF THE MOST IMPORTANT NUTRIENTS. IT HELPS US IN MANY WAYS LIKE IT HELPS US TO FIGHT DISEASES, GIVES STONGNESS TO THE BONES. ETC.

Dietitians may recommend that dietary minerals are best supplied by ingesting specific foods rich with the element(s) of interest. Sometimes dietary minerals are ingested as part of dietary supplements, the most common being iodine in iodized salt.

Dietary fiber (fibre), sometimes called roughage, is the indigestible portion of

plant foods that pushes food through the digestive system, absorbs water and

eases defecation. It acts by changing the nature of the contents of the

gastrointestinal tract, and by changing how other nutrients and chemicals are

absorbed.[1]