How to Maintain a Healthy Balanced Diet for Infants, Young Adults, the Elderly, and Pregnant Women

Healthy Balanced Diet for All Ages

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Dietetics always emphasizes a balanced diet, but most of us are not aware of this definition of a balanced diet. A balanced diet is one that contains adequate amounts of all macro and micronutrients our body demands so much that none there is neither an excess nor a deficiency of nutrients. A balanced diet maintains our health in such a way that we neither losing weight nor being overweight. A balanced diet varies by calorie content needs of a person, while caloric needs depend on weight, age, sex, body physiology and working conditions of this person. 

Diet for Infants:

Milk is the best food for infants, which contains all the necessary nutrients, i.e. breast feeding is unmatched. It provides not only nutrients but also prepared antibodies infants. But if breastfeeding is not possible under certain unavoidable circumstances, then the dairy cow or buffalo milk can also be used. It must be diluted by adding two parts water to one part of cow or buffalo milk. They can also be served with light solid foods such as cereal,  egg yolk or cooked minced meat after the fourth month of their life. Infants from 6 to 18 months he should get fruit and eggs in addition to milk. 

Diet for Young People:

They need more food because they are more active and agile. Their diet should be higher carbohydrate and fat content of foods. As the young body undergoes rapid growth phase, they also need a high protein diet. A balanced diet should be strictly given between age 13-16 years. Milk and milk products should be an integral part of their diet. 

Diet for the Elderly:

They require less energy than the above two categories for declining physical abilities. They should not use high fat diets. Instead, they should have a moderate diet the amount of protein and carbohydrates.

Diet for Pregnant and Lactating Women:

They need twice as much food as normal women because they have to fill a requirement of the developing embryo. If they do not receive a well-balanced diet, development bodies may be affected and be born underweight. Pregnant women should therefore, eat a balanced diet high in protein, vitamins and minerals. Lactating women they should also use milk, sugar, fats, wheat, fruit and eggs, as far as they should meet energy requirements of their breastfed offspring.