Question

Speech on balanced diet in country like India

Answer 1

                 The importance of balanced diet in a country like India

Virginia Woolf has rightly said: ‘One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.’ It is a well-established truth that balanced diet is the first prerequisite for a healthy and happy life; and health is the first prerequisite for a successful life. Only a country whose people are healthy can dream, dare and achieve national goals of growth, development and prosperity.

If India has to achieve her national economic, scientific, technological, security, educational, infrastructural, digital, and developmental goals, all the Indians must be perfectly healthy. India has been facing many challenges in the form of terrorism, hostile neighbouring countries, population, backwardness, corruption, etc; and these challenges can only be overcome with physical and mental strength. Strength is impossible without health; and health is impossible without balanced diet.

Only a balanced diet can provide all the essential nutrients, vitamins, minerals, fibers, etc to keep the metabolism of the body working optimally. To further reinforce the effects of balanced diet, proper work-out regimen should be followed. We must not forget that unless every Indian is healthy, India cannot achieve her goals. Since balanced diet is indispensable for health, so every Indian must eat balanced diet. The government must provide balanced diet to all the Indians. It must make such rules as ensure balanced diet easily accessible to all.

Answer 2

Balance Diet

             A balanced diet is one that provides an adequate intake of energy and nutrients for maintenance of the body and therefore good health. A diet can easily be adequate for normal bodily functioning, yet may not be a balanced diet. An ideal human diet contains fat, protein, carbohydrates, vitamins, minerals, water and fibre all in correct proportions. These proportions vary for each individual because everyone has different metabolic rates and levels of activity.
             Malnutrition results from an unbalanced diet, this can be due to an excess of some dietary components and lack of other components, not just a complete lack of food. Too much of one component can be as much harm to the body as too little. Deficiency diseases occur when there is a lack of a specific nutrient, although some diet related disorders are a result of eating in excess. An adequate diet provides sufficient energy for the performance of the body to function.
             Carbohydrates, fats and proteins provide energy. Proteins are a provider of energy in an emergency, but are primarily used as building blocks for growth and repair of many body tissues. We also need much smaller amounts of other nutrients, such as vitamins and minerals. Despite the small quantities needed these are essential to provide a healthy diet.
             Within the cells of our body, the nutrients ingested are converted to other compounds, which are then used for metabolism and other cellular reactions. Starch, a major carbohydrate is converted to glucose which can be then synthesised into fat for storage, proteins are synthesised from amino acids, and phospholipids are made from glycerol and fatty acids. 
             Carbohydrates are a rapid source of energy; they are the body's fuel. The bulk of a balanced diet should be made from carbohydrates. If eaten in an excess of the dietary requirements carbohydrates are easily stored as fats in the cells.