Tag: diseases caused by changes in lifestyle

A person should eat a balanced diet for healthy living. A balanced diet is the diet that contains all the components in optimum proportions and quantity required for maintaining the body in a perfect state of health, activity and development. Various components of the balanced diet are carbohydrates, fats, proteins, vitamins, mineral and roughage or fiber.

Vitamin D is not found in milk but obtained from early morning Sun, cod liver oil, shark liver oil, Pilchard, Herring. Rest all are found in the milk.

• 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.

Cortisol is a steroid hormone, known as a glucocorticoid, made in the cortex of the adrenal glands and then released into the blood which transports it all round the body.  It is a life-sustaining hormone which maintains homeostasis. Almost every cell contains receptors for cortisol and so cortisol can have lots of different actions depending on which sort of cells it is acting upon. These effects include controlling the body’s blood sugar levels and thus regulating metabolism, acting as an anti-inflammatory, influencing memory formation, controlling salt and water balance, influencing blood pressure and helping the development of the foetus. In many species, cortisol is also responsible for triggering the processes involved in giving birth. Aldosterone, parathormone, and somatostatin do not cause the symptoms such as obesity, weakness, salt and water retention etc. Thus, option A is correct.

Yoghurt has much digestion aiding property as it is a dairy byproduct. yoghurt neutralize the acid which in turn cool the stomach. it also helps in digestion. 

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.