When combined with regular exercise, eating a balanced diet is an important part of maintaining a healthy lifestyle. The key to a nutritious diet is to make sure that your body has the right combination of proteins, carbohydrates, dairy products, fruits and vegetables -- and yes, even some healthy fats.Whole grains are an important part of a balanced diet because they supply complex carbohydrates.he Go-to Grains. Whole grains are an important part of a balanced diet because they supply complex carbohydrates. Photo Credit Comstock Images/Stockbyte/Getty Images. The U.S. Department of Agriculture recommends consuming 6 ounces of grains each day â based on a 2,000-calorie diet.
The First American Factories. Slater Mill, founded in 1793 by Samuel Slater, is now used as a museum dedicated to textile manufacturing. There was more than one kind of frontier and one kind of pioneer in early America.
J.P. Morgan creates the worldâs first billion-dollar corporation by buying out industrialist Andrew Carnegie and combining some 33 companies to create United States Steel. 1895: J. Pierpont Morgan, Sr. becomes senior partner. The New York firm is renamed J.P. Morgan & Co. 1893: J.P. Morgan is primary financier of U.S. railroads. 1871