to a Healthy Balanced Diet (Part 1) Healthy Diet (Part 1)
Healthy Balanced Diets Come in Various Forms There is no one
type of balanced diet, with a fixed amount of fat, carbohydrate
and protein, that suits everyone. An elderly person may need a
different balance of foods to that of a teenager. Or an obese
diabetic may need a different type of balanced diet to that of
an underweight athlete, and so on. Also, tastes and digestive
preferences vary considerably. Thus a healthy diet may take a
variety of different forms with differing proportions of fat,
protein and carbohydrate. Healthy Eating in a Nutshell -
Nutritional Quality Counts Instead of focusing on calorie-
counting, carb-counting or fat-counting, focus on the
nutritional quality of the food. For example, choose less-
processed foods (eg. oats) rather than highly processed
alternatives (eg. regular breakfast cereal). Choose whole grain
carbs (eg. wholegrain rye bread) rather than refined versions
(eg. fluffy white bread). Choose extra low fat ground beef