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• Good food means a healthy diet. The balanced diet is a healthy diet as it contains all the necessary components of food required for a healthy body. It provides energy and strength to the body.

A balanced diet is one which provides all the nutrients in required amounts and proper proportions. The basic component of the balance diet is proteins, fat, carbohydrates, vitamins and minerals. The quantities of foods needed to meet the nutrient requirements vary with age, gender, physiological status and physical activity. 

• Obesity is a condition that is associated with having an excess amount of body fat, defined by genetic and environmental factors that are difficult to control when dieting.
  
• Malnutrition refers to deficiencies, excesses or imbalances in a person’s intake of energy and/or nutrients.
  

Diet refer to the food and drink a person consumes daily which is oxidized to form energy. The diet which contains all the major components is known as balanced diet. The basic component of the balance diet is proteins, fat, carbohydrates, vitamins and minerals. The quantities of foods needed to meet the nutrient requirements vary with age, gender, physiological status and physical activity.

Proteins are regarded as the building blocks of our body. It helps in the growth and development of the body. It helps to build and repair the damaged tissues. It forms an integral component of the enzymes and hormones of the body which helps in the regulation of metabolic activities like digestion etc. It also provides energy to the body for physical and metabolic activities. The protein contains four calories per gram. Fish and proteins are good sources of proteins. Other sources are milk, yoghurt and cheese etc.

Roughage is basically edible fiber. It has the capacity to resist the enzymes of human digestive system. It helps in proper elimination of waste products. examples are whole grains like oats and vegetables like carrot and cucumber. So, the correct option is 'Fibres'.

The main components of dietary fiber are derived from the cell walls of plant material in the diet and comprise cellulose, hemi-cellulose and pectin (the non-starch polysaccharides). Lignin, a non-carbohydrate component of the cell wall is also often included. Dietary fiber is a term which is felt to be valuable for the consumer who looks upon this as a healthy component of the diet. At the present time, there is no consensus as to which components of carbohydrate should be included as dietary fiber and different authors have variously included non-starch polysaccharides and resistant starch.

Deoxyribose, also known as D-Deoxyribose and 2-deoxyribose, is a pentose sugar (monosaccharide containing five carbon atoms) that is a key component of the nucleic acid deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA). It is derived from the pentose sugar ribose. So, the correct option is 'True'.

A balanced diet is one which provides all the nutrients in the required amounts and proper proportions. A balanced diet should provide around 50-60% of total calories from carbohydrates, preferably from complex carbohydrates, about 10-15% from proteins and 20-30% from both visible and invisible fat.