DR. J. S. MCLESTER
"Balance diet is that,which both in sickness and health will meet but not exceed a person's coloric needs and which is designed to provide as far as possible in liberal excess of body's calculated requirements of all nutritive essential, notably proteins and vitamins. "
Health is not only such thing which could be given to man by taking out ,from a bottle of some medicine. It depends upon proper habbit and attitude of life. GEORGE NEWMEN has told six fundamental needs of health. Thosej are :--------
*Balanced diet
*Fresh air
*Light
*Heat
*Exercise
*Rest
*Cleanliness
We all know that without food man can live alive for few days only ,that is food is most essential for human life. Food means all things, using which all creatures to live alive.
FUNCTION OF FOOD
Functions of food in our body are the following:--
*Food generates power for conducting physical activities, and along with power, it provides heat to the body.
*Food develops body of infants and children and constructs new tissues and repair damaged tissues or organs of body.
*Food preserves health and develops body by conducting and controlling internal activities of body.
MAIN CONSTITUENTS OF FOOD
Food commodies can be classified in the following categories with the viewpoint of their chemical construction:--
*CARBOHYDRATE--- Starch and sugar.
*FATS-- Animal fat and vegetative fats and other things like this.
*PROTEINS-- Pulses, curds etc.
*MINERAL SALT-- Calcium, Phosphorus, iodine, iron, sodium chloride etc.
*VITAMINS---- "A", "B" ,"B2" Nicotine acids "c"
"D" etc.
*WATER--Besides above 5 elements, it is also one more element which is found in many edible things .It is essential for digestion. It ousts waste from body through urine, sweat and respiration.
SPECIFIC FUNCTION OF FOOD ELEMENTS
*Function of providing power and heat to body ,it is done by carbohydrate and fats.
*Development of body and repair of cells, it is done by the protein and mineral salt.
*Functions of physical activities and preservation of health, vitamins and mineral salt bear this responsibility.
MEANING AND IMPORTANCE OF BALANCED DIET
Indeed balanced diet is that food in which all food elements are found in proper quantity with point of view of need of individual. The balanced diet is effected by various situations of individual. Each person requires food which provides power and heat,develops body and protects health, but all persons do not require equal quantity of these three elements. Various persons require various quantities of these nutritive elements according to age ,sex, toil ,and season. There is difference in food habits of infant or child and adults, of female and male and of physical workers and mental workers, the inhabitants of cold regions and hot countries, and of winter season and summer season. Reasons of difference of these are quite apparent, for example----in any situation and stage, the nutritive elements protein is required more ,in other condition it is needed the power generating element. Carbohydrate more therefore, not only for children but also for each individual, such balanced diet is required in which he may obtain proper supply of various nutritive elements in proper quantity of food, useful for power generation, body construction and health protection.
Thus it can be said that balanced diet is that food in which all food elements are available supplying needs of body and they are also in proper quantity according to need of particular individual.
EFFECT ON BODY OFWANT OF BALANCED DIET
As food is most essential to remain alive, in the same manner for healthy and long life, balanced diet is important. It has come to notice from surveys relating to nutrition that person of specific conditions for instance infant and child, expectant mothers and suckling mothers are badly affected due to lack of balanced diet and important elements in food. In general, on the food of all classes of Indians, protein and mineral salt and vitamins are found inadequate, but particularly children are mostly affected by the food which is not regarded satisfactory. This is the reason that generally health and body development is found of very low standards of children of our country. Many children are not only found unhealthy but they are also found sufferable from several diseases in want of main elements of food.
*EFFECT OF WANT OF PROTEIN:--Due to lack of protein, the body development of children is obstructed, liver enlarges, the skin of body becomes dry and pale ,Sometimes loose motion also occur.
*EFFECT OF DEFICIENCY OF VITAMIN "A":--Due to deficiency of this vitamin, children become prey of difficulties for whole life Eyes are effected at the most by the deficiency of it .firstly, in want of it, the light of eyes is lost.He can not see well.He feel with the hand to pick up a thing. By and by eye defect increases. Sometimes eyesight goes forever. This vitamin is essential for healthy skin also.
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EFFECT OF DEFICIENCY OF VITAMIN "B":-- From deficiency of this vitamin, child becomes victim of pellagra,and anaemia etc. diseases. In side the mouth, skin feels trouble and tongue becomes uneven. This vitamin is also essential for keeping many things healthy in the body.
DEFICIENCY OF VITAMIN "C":-- Due to deficiency of this vitamin, children become prey of scurvy disease
Along with, due to want of it teeth and gums become unhealthy.
EFFECT OF DEFICIENCY OF VITAMIN "D":-- Due to lack of this vitamin, children are affected by rickets.
*EFFECT IS DEFICIENCY OF MINERAL SALT:-Due to lack of calcium and phosphorus, development of child is hindered. Bones and teeth become weak.Due to lack of iron,children are affected by anaemia. In want of iodine thyroid glands do not work well.
NEED OF FOOD OF CHILDREN
Through surveys conducted in different parts of country in connection with nutrition, we have come to know that in want of nutritive elements, children are affected greatly. In preliminary stages they need nutritive food particularly for bodily development and growth. Bodily growth of school going children is a continuous process. Therefore, they require more protein in their diet. Besides bodily development, due to their continuous energetic activities, they require more protein in comparison of adults for repairing of damaged and worn out tissues generally which is not available to children of India.
Children are always very much active. Therefore, they require more energy For generating more energy, they require more carbohydrate and fat in their diet. Along with protein, carbohydrates and fat,they require also mineral salt, and vitamins adequately like person of all ages ,these food elements help maintaining the health.
Milk is the best nutritive food for children for keeping them healthy, because milk proteins are regarded to be the high quality proteins. Along with protein and calcium, we get carbohydrate and fat also from it which are regarded energy producing elements.
In milk, generally all minerals salts are found in balanced quantity. Besides it vitamins "A" and "B" are also available in it for keeping health nice.
It is also estimated that there is a difference in between food requirements of boys and girls. Girls need less quantity of food rather than boys. Be it possible that their food requirement may be less due to construction of body ,their height ,and difference in function. Girls generally invest less energy in games and sports in comparison to boys.Therefore,they require less calories rather than boys.
"Balance diet is that,which both in sickness and health will meet but not exceed a person's coloric needs and which is designed to provide as far as possible in liberal excess of body's calculated requirements of all nutritive essential, notably proteins and vitamins. "
Health is not only such thing which could be given to man by taking out ,from a bottle of some medicine. It depends upon proper habbit and attitude of life. GEORGE NEWMEN has told six fundamental needs of health. Thosej are :--------
*Balanced diet
*Fresh air
*Light
*Heat
*Exercise
*Rest
*Cleanliness
We all know that without food man can live alive for few days only ,that is food is most essential for human life. Food means all things, using which all creatures to live alive.
FUNCTION OF FOOD
Functions of food in our body are the following:--
*Food generates power for conducting physical activities, and along with power, it provides heat to the body.
*Food develops body of infants and children and constructs new tissues and repair damaged tissues or organs of body.
*Food preserves health and develops body by conducting and controlling internal activities of body.
MAIN CONSTITUENTS OF FOOD
Food commodies can be classified in the following categories with the viewpoint of their chemical construction:--
*CARBOHYDRATE--- Starch and sugar.
*FATS-- Animal fat and vegetative fats and other things like this.
*PROTEINS-- Pulses, curds etc.
*MINERAL SALT-- Calcium, Phosphorus, iodine, iron, sodium chloride etc.
*VITAMINS---- "A", "B" ,"B2" Nicotine acids "c"
"D" etc.
*WATER--Besides above 5 elements, it is also one more element which is found in many edible things .It is essential for digestion. It ousts waste from body through urine, sweat and respiration.
SPECIFIC FUNCTION OF FOOD ELEMENTS
*Function of providing power and heat to body ,it is done by carbohydrate and fats.
*Development of body and repair of cells, it is done by the protein and mineral salt.
*Functions of physical activities and preservation of health, vitamins and mineral salt bear this responsibility.
MEANING AND IMPORTANCE OF BALANCED DIET
Indeed balanced diet is that food in which all food elements are found in proper quantity with point of view of need of individual. The balanced diet is effected by various situations of individual. Each person requires food which provides power and heat,develops body and protects health, but all persons do not require equal quantity of these three elements. Various persons require various quantities of these nutritive elements according to age ,sex, toil ,and season. There is difference in food habits of infant or child and adults, of female and male and of physical workers and mental workers, the inhabitants of cold regions and hot countries, and of winter season and summer season. Reasons of difference of these are quite apparent, for example----in any situation and stage, the nutritive elements protein is required more ,in other condition it is needed the power generating element. Carbohydrate more therefore, not only for children but also for each individual, such balanced diet is required in which he may obtain proper supply of various nutritive elements in proper quantity of food, useful for power generation, body construction and health protection.
Thus it can be said that balanced diet is that food in which all food elements are available supplying needs of body and they are also in proper quantity according to need of particular individual.
EFFECT ON BODY OFWANT OF BALANCED DIET
As food is most essential to remain alive, in the same manner for healthy and long life, balanced diet is important. It has come to notice from surveys relating to nutrition that person of specific conditions for instance infant and child, expectant mothers and suckling mothers are badly affected due to lack of balanced diet and important elements in food. In general, on the food of all classes of Indians, protein and mineral salt and vitamins are found inadequate, but particularly children are mostly affected by the food which is not regarded satisfactory. This is the reason that generally health and body development is found of very low standards of children of our country. Many children are not only found unhealthy but they are also found sufferable from several diseases in want of main elements of food.
*EFFECT OF WANT OF PROTEIN:--Due to lack of protein, the body development of children is obstructed, liver enlarges, the skin of body becomes dry and pale ,Sometimes loose motion also occur.
*EFFECT OF DEFICIENCY OF VITAMIN "A":--Due to deficiency of this vitamin, children become prey of difficulties for whole life Eyes are effected at the most by the deficiency of it .firstly, in want of it, the light of eyes is lost.He can not see well.He feel with the hand to pick up a thing. By and by eye defect increases. Sometimes eyesight goes forever. This vitamin is essential for healthy skin also.
.
EFFECT OF DEFICIENCY OF VITAMIN "B":-- From deficiency of this vitamin, child becomes victim of pellagra,and anaemia etc. diseases. In side the mouth, skin feels trouble and tongue becomes uneven. This vitamin is also essential for keeping many things healthy in the body.
DEFICIENCY OF VITAMIN "C":-- Due to deficiency of this vitamin, children become prey of scurvy disease
Along with, due to want of it teeth and gums become unhealthy.
EFFECT OF DEFICIENCY OF VITAMIN "D":-- Due to lack of this vitamin, children are affected by rickets.
*EFFECT IS DEFICIENCY OF MINERAL SALT:-Due to lack of calcium and phosphorus, development of child is hindered. Bones and teeth become weak.Due to lack of iron,children are affected by anaemia. In want of iodine thyroid glands do not work well.
NEED OF FOOD OF CHILDREN
Through surveys conducted in different parts of country in connection with nutrition, we have come to know that in want of nutritive elements, children are affected greatly. In preliminary stages they need nutritive food particularly for bodily development and growth. Bodily growth of school going children is a continuous process. Therefore, they require more protein in their diet. Besides bodily development, due to their continuous energetic activities, they require more protein in comparison of adults for repairing of damaged and worn out tissues generally which is not available to children of India.
Children are always very much active. Therefore, they require more energy For generating more energy, they require more carbohydrate and fat in their diet. Along with protein, carbohydrates and fat,they require also mineral salt, and vitamins adequately like person of all ages ,these food elements help maintaining the health.
Milk is the best nutritive food for children for keeping them healthy, because milk proteins are regarded to be the high quality proteins. Along with protein and calcium, we get carbohydrate and fat also from it which are regarded energy producing elements.
In milk, generally all minerals salts are found in balanced quantity. Besides it vitamins "A" and "B" are also available in it for keeping health nice.
It is also estimated that there is a difference in between food requirements of boys and girls. Girls need less quantity of food rather than boys. Be it possible that their food requirement may be less due to construction of body ,their height ,and difference in function. Girls generally invest less energy in games and sports in comparison to boys.Therefore,they require less calories rather than boys.
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