A Report on Balanced Diet: Components, Roles, and Deficiencies

This report provides a comprehensive overview of a balanced diet, detailing its essential components and their respective roles within the human body. It emphasizes the importance of a balanced diet for maintaining overall health and supporting the immune system. The report explores key components such as carbohydrates, highlighting their function as a primary energy source. Furthermore, it delves into common nutritional deficiencies, including vitamin D, iron, and vitamin C, explaining their causes and associated health implications. The report references several scientific studies to support the presented information, offering a well-rounded understanding of the topic.

Task 25 A Balance Diet

CONTENTS
• The components of a balanced diet
• The role each component plays within the body
• Describe what the deficiency is?
• References

The components of a balanced diet
• A balance diet is a diet which contains various
types of food in fixed proportions and amount.
• Therefore the need for minerals, proteins,
calories some alternative nutrients and
vitamins is small provision and adequate is
reserved for supplement nutrients to go
through small length of leanness.

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• Taking a balanced diet is very crucial for the
body as it assist body to perform all the
activities and build up the immune system.
• Strong immune system helps to fight against
number of antigens and diseases. A balance
diet is a diet which improves or maintains
overall health.

The role each component plays within the
body
Components Role within the body
Carbohydrate Carbohydrate plays a very
crucial role in our body.
Carbohydrate is the major
source of energy and assist
fuel the organs. It is the
primary source of energy
which our muscles and brain
use.

Describe what the deficiency is?
• Vitamin D deficiency: Vitamin D does not
form in our body. It is obtain from the
external food and sunlight.
• Vitamin deficiency can cause decrease of
bone density and results broken bone and
osteoporosis. It also play an important role
in immune health.

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• Iron deficiency: it is a condition in which
too little amount of iron found in our
body.
• Most common cause of this deficiency is
chronic, slow blood loss in the body due
to the Hiatal Hernia, Peptic Ulcer,
Colorectal Cancer, Colon Polyp and so on.

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• Vitamin C deficiency: Vitamin C deficiency
occur due to the poor vitamin c rich diet,
anorexia, smoking, mental illness, dialysis and
alcoholism.
• It deficiency can cause scurvy, inflammation
of gums, fatigue, small purple or red spots on
the skin, poor wound healing and so on
(Singh, and et. al., 2018).

REFERENCES
• Abassi, M.M., and et. al., 2018. Gender inequalities in diet quality and their socioeconomic
patterning in a nutrition transition context in North Africa. Revue d'Épidémiologie et de Santé
Publique, 66, p.S351.
• Dykes, J.L., and et. al., 2020. Diet selection of white-tailed deer supports the nutrient balance
hypothesis. Behavioural Processes, 179, p.104196.

REFERENCES
• Norris, A.B., and et. al., 2020. AFST: Influence of quebracho tannin extract fed at differing rates within a high-
roughage diet on the apparent digestibility of dry matter and fiber, nitrogen balance, and fecal gas flux. Animal
Feed Science and Technology, 260, p.114365.
• Sato, Y., and et. al., 2018. Effects of supplementary desalted mother liquor as replacement of commercial salt
in diet for Thai native cattle on digestibility, energy and nitrogen balance, and rumen conditions. Animal
Science Journal, 89(8), pp.1093-1101.

REFERENCES
• Singh, A., and et. al., 2018. Inulin fiber dose-dependently modulates energy balance, glucose
tolerance, gut microbiota, hormones and diet preference in high-fat-fed male rats. The Journal of
nutritional biochemistry, 59, pp.142-152.
• Wright, C.L., Nunan, E.L. and Butcher, J.T., 2022. Myostatin Deletion Protects Against Renal
Dysfunction During a High Salt Diet. The FASEB Journal, 36.