Balanced Diet - Multi Skill Foundation - Class 10

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UNIT 4: PERSONAL HEALTH AND HYGIENE 
 
SESSION 1: BALANCED DIET 
Human body needs proper diet to grow and maintain itself. Have you ever 
thought why do we consume food? We consume food to get energy. Our body 
needs energy to perform its usual functions such as walking, speaking, thinking, 
working etc. We need adequate amount of energy to perform every small day to 
day activity and we get this energy from the food we consume. 
 
Components of the chapter: 
1. Balanced diet: definition and elements 
2. Benefits of balanced diet 
3. Deficiencies of balanced diet 
 
1. Balanced diet: definition and elements 
The diet, which provides all the necessary elements for the nutrition of body is 
called balanced diet. The balanced diet includes the proper amount of all the 
nutrients like carbohydrate, fats, proteins, vitamins, minerals, water.  
 
Classification of the components of balanced diet: We can classify the 
elements of balanced diet into two components: 
· Organic components:  
These components contain carbon. 
a) Carbohydrate 
b) Fat (Lipids) 
c) Protein 
d) Vitamins 
· Inorganic components 
a) Water 
b) Minerals 
 
Elements of balanced diet: We will now discuss the elements of balanced diet in 
detail. 
 
1. Organic components:  
a) Carbohydrate: Generally carbohydrates are found in plant sources. 
Carbohydrates are the major and most important component of our diet. Foods 
which is high in carbohydrate are rice, wheat flour, jowar, potato, sabudana, ragi, 
green gram, Bengal gram, kidney beans, apricot, jiggery, honey, dry dates, etc. In 
our food we use carbohydrate in maximum amount. 
· Carbohydrates are found in the form of Sugar, Starch and Cellulose in fruits, 
vegetables, grains and milk products. 
· In green plants, carbohydrate is formed through the biochemical process of 
photo synthesis.  
· Carbohydrate is formed by the combination of carbon and oxygen.