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Balanced diet

noun

A diet that contains adequate amounts of all the necessary nutrients required for healthy growth and activity.

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"Balanced diet" Quotes from Famous Books

... life. He informed them that we are all brothers of the earth, being composed of carbon and a few other elements, and grow from it as do the trees; that we are but super-vegetables. He further instructed them as to the constitution of a balanced diet—protein for building, starches or sugar for energy, and fats for heating and also for ...

— The Wrong Twin • Harry Leon Wilson

... much meat and but little of these foods. It has been suggested recently that in forming an idea as to whether the money is being spent to the most advantage, the money spent for fruit and vegetables, for milk and cheese, and for meat and fish should be compared. In a well-balanced diet these amounts should be nearly equal. An increasing number of people are becoming lacto-vegetarians, which means that they eat no meat or fish, but balance their absence by using more milk, ...

— Scouting For Girls, Official Handbook of the Girl Scouts • Girl Scouts