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Following a balanced diet also means correctly distributing the various types of carbohydrates and ensuring the right amount of dietary fiber, which although not a nutrient has very important repercussions on the health of the person; for an adult, 30 grams of fiber per day are needed, while for growing children the optimal intake is around 0.5 grams per kg of body weight (or an amount between age 5 and older. 10 expressed in grams, undoubtedly more suitable for overweight children).
Then there are the recommended rations of vitamins and minerals:
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Varied diet
This concept is expressed by the modern food pyramid, at the base of which we find an essential component, albeit unrelated to the food sector: motor activity. The association between diet and movement is valid both for diet therapy, both as prevention, and for the maintenance of general well-being.
Varied diet also means thoughtful choice of foods. Unless there is a manifest pathological condition, there is no food that should be praised and no other that should be abolished; in fact, in nature, we do not find complete foods, which is why the variety of food styles is essential to ensure the health of the individual.
On the other hand, we must not forget that nutrition is also, if not above all, gratification; therefore all the characteristics listed so far are completely valid only if we keep in mind that the diet must psychologically satisfy the individual. A dietary product, for example, must be functional and respond to certain needs, but it must also be organoleptically satisfactory. The famous "shakes", liquid replacement meals that someone tries to exhume from time to time to reduce their weight, in theory would also be good - because they provide us with the right calories giving us a certain sense of gastric satiety - but they have the drawback. of taste, often too accentuated and "tiring" in the long run.
Optimal Diet
For a whole series of reasons, modern life, with the stress, pollution and the frenetic rhythms that accompany it, leads to a massive or in any case accentuated production of free radicals; we therefore have the sacrosanct duty to provide the right amount of antioxidants to counteract these phenomena, consuming a lot of fruit and vegetables, preferably fresh. This approach guarantees an "adequate ingestion of natural substances which in some way perform a" protective action for the whole organism.
