Diet is the set of foods and beverages usually ingested by a person. The word "diet" comes from Latin diaet, which comes from the Greek “diaita, which means "way of life".
Diets can be modified and adapted for different purposes, according to nutritional needs or dietary restrictions.
One balanced diet or balanced is the one that contains the adequate amount of food necessary to guarantee the nutritional requirements.
However, it is known that a diet can satisfy caloric and nutritional needs, but, at the same time, be inadequate, because it contains a certain nutrient in excess.
Thus, a balanced or balanced diet should be:
- Enough to ensure energy needs;
- Complete to ensure nutritional requirements;
- Harmonic, so that the different nutrients have a correct relationship to each other;
- Appropriate to the individual's biological situation.
diet therapy it is the therapeutic management of food, whose objective is to produce a negative energy balance to reduce weight and improve body composition.
Some types of diets:
- Hypercaloric Diet: Diet with increased amount of calories;
- Hyperglycidic Diet: Diet with increased amount of carbohydrates;
- Hyperlipidic Diet: Diet with increased amount of fat;
- Hyperprotein Diet: Diet with increased amount of protein;
- Low-calorie Diet: Diet with reduced amount of calories;
- Hypoglycidic Diet: Diet with reduced amount of carbohydrates;
- Low-fat Diet: Diet with reduced amount of fat;
- Hypoprotein Diet: Diet with reduced amount of protein.
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