Food Groups and Healthy Diet

Here, under Food Groups and Healthy Diet, we are going to learn about how food is important in growth and giving energy. Also, in the list of nutrients given below, click on each nutrient to read more about them.

Food Groups and Nutrients

Nutrients are the things that provide nourishment in food. So, they can keep the human body healthy and help it to grow as well. Basically, there are 7 major types of nutrients in our food. They are:

• Carbohydrates (click to read more)
• Fats (click to read more)
• Proteins (click to read more)
• Vitamins (click to read more)
• Minerals (click to read more)  
• Fibre (click to read more)
• Water (click to read more)

* Click on each type of nutrient to learn more about them.

A healthy diet

Diet

What we eat and drink is our diet. Therefore, if you want to be healthy it is better to have a mixed diet or a healthy balance diet with several different foods. Hence, a healthy balance diet gives you all the nutrients which are required to be healthy.