Importance of Nutritional Components in a Healthy Diet

Nutrition Assessment

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................3
RECOMMENDATIONS.................................................................................................................6
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................7
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................8

INTRODUCTION
The concept of healthy diet states that diet is very important for good nutrition as well as
health. A healthy diet can protect people from many chronic non-transmissible diseases like heart
related diseases, cancer as well as diabetes. Its concept includes that a healthy diet can generally
give the body with crucial nutrition such as macronutrients, adequate amount of energy food,
micronutrients as well as plenty of fluids. In this, it also includes the vegetables, fruits as well as
the whole grain that may involves a small amount or no processed food products or the
sweetened beverages. In this report it will cover the importance and the role of the nutritional
components such as vitamins, minerals, carbohydrates, fats and proteins in a healthy diet. This
report will also cover a deep understanding of the functions as well as role of both micro and
macro nutrients that will contributes to a poor or good health status (Samadzad. and Hashemi,
2021).
MAIN BODY
The importance of balance diet cannot be underlined enough for a healthy lifestyle. It can
be attained by maintaining a proper balanced diet as well as keeping into reflection to come
across all the crucial nutrients which are needed by the body. A proper meal plan can usually aid
to accomplish an ideal body weight and can generally decreases the risk of developing the
chronic illness such as diabetes, the types of cancer and the cardiovascular disorders. It includes
a concept of balanced diet which contains a simple explanation that is, a diet which generally
offers the nutrients so as to aid the functioning of the body properly. Its necessity can lie in the
intake of the appropriate amount of calories. As calories are specifically an indicator of the
energy content which is usually present in a food. Minerals as well as vitamins are generally
considered as an important nutrient as they can perform many of the roles in the body (Larson,
2018).
They can usually help to heal the wounds, shore up the bones and can involves a
capability to boost up the immune system. The vitamins and minerals can convert the food into
the energy form and can able to repair the cellular impairment. The vitamins can involve
approximately about 13 important vitamins which are needed for the body so as to work
efficiently such as Vitamins (A, B1, B2, B3, B6, B12, B5, B7, B9, C, D, E and k). Vitamins are
categorised into two sub categories such as the water soluble vitamins which are generally not
stored inside the body and the fat soluble vitamins which are usually stored in the liver, muscles