what is a balnced diet?

Answer 1

A balanced diet for whom ?
An infant ?
A pre-schooler ?
A teen boy ? Girl ?
A pregnant woman with diabetes ?
An Olympic athlete ?

There is no one balanced diet for everyone.It is individual and should change during your life.

Answer 2

DIABETES DIET

Since you're asking here in diabetes, I assume you have it. So, the best answer I can give you is that the number of CALORIES needs to be balanced to your metabolism, so you maintain a healthy weight. Carbs have 4 calories per gram, as does protein, and fat has 9 calories per gram. Food labels that list carbs now are referring to grams of carbohydrate. You generally need about 1800-2400 calories per day for a maintenance weight.

To lose weight, you can safely cut 1000 calories per day from your maintenance amount, and you will lose 2 pounds per week by doing so.

Now, the tricky part--your diet should consist of no more that 20% fat, about 20% protein, and about 60% COMPLEX carbohydrates. You can run into as many problems by eating the wrong balance as by eating the wrong amount. So, for a guy who wants to lose weight, let's say your maintenance intake is 2000 calories per day but you've been eating 2800 calories per day to get where you are now--I'd suggest going down to 1600 calories per day for your diet. 60% of 1600 is 960 calories of complex carbs per day, or 240 grams = 240carbs.

A word of caution--while canned and processed food make it easy to figure your carbs, they contain preservatives and additives that are designed to make you hungry and crave certain foods, and this is very BAD. For your diet to work, you need to concentrate on fresh and frozen veggies, and move away from processed foods and trans fats.

One last piece of advice--microwaving veggies destroys the enzymes in them. An enzyme supplement is a good thing for you, as you start your effective weight loss program.


According to recent studies conducted by the Pritikin Longevity Center, diabetes starts from too much fat in the diet and insufficient exercise, not malfunction of the pancreas as previously thought. The pancreas continues to produce insulin when you have diabetes but the body becomes insulin resistant. Research has shown that over 90% of diabetes cases can be CURED with diet and exercise. That means that you don't have to have limbs removed due to diabetes-induced gangrene. You don't have to go blind or suffer cardiovascular abnormalities because of diabetes. You can actually REVERSE these conditions with diet (nutrition, not weight loss) and exercise, and the removal of parasites and candida.

Watch the 8-minute non-profit video http://www.rawfor30days.com/view.html , about diabetes diet.
Best of luck.

Answer 3

a balanced diet is one in which all of the food groups are represented in the correct amounts. to find out how much food from each food group you should eat, go to www.mypyramid.gov and learn.

Answer 4

a balanced diet is when you get a proper required amount of each thing in the food pyramid!!!!!!!!!!!!!