Question

What happens if a person does not eat a balanced diet?

Answer 1

Balanced diet:

1. A diet that consists of all the essential nutrients like carbohydrates, proteins, fats, vitamins, minerals, and roughage in adequate proportion is called a balanced diet.

Effects of not taking a balanced diet:

1. If a person does not eat a balanced diet, he or she may suffer from deficiency disease or obesity.
2. In deficiency disease, the diet of a person is deficient in one or more essential nutrients, whereas in obesity a person gets more food than required and gets an unhealthy weight.