How is a balanced diet
Balanced Diet
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life is better healthy maybe you've
heard the term balanced diet before but
what does that really mean how does this
affect our food choices and the meals we
eat our food can be broken down into
three different types carbohydrates
proteins and fats it's best to balance
foods from each group throughout the day
and even at every meal if we can a
balanced diet combining foods from all
three groups keeps our bodies running
smoothly I'm going to bring in Barbara
our nutritionist who will help explain
this balance a little more for us
macronutrients are the way us dietitians
we dietitians divide food into three
basic groups a carbohydrate is the foods
that give us energy and those come from
grains fruits and vegetables there's
even carbohydrates in milk proteins are
usually animal products but you can find
them in things like soy and beans fats
are things like oils olive oil corn oil
those are the three basic categories of
food so as a chef I'm sure we could talk
about many different types of proteins
but as a person who cooks
I think of protein as the basics right I
think of beef chicken fish there are
vegetable sources of proteins you can
find them in soy and beans are really
good examples you can actually find them
in nuts too so there's good carbs
there's bad carbs right that's true
there are good carbs and bad carbs a
good carb is one that has a lot of fiber
in it things like whole-grain breads
fruits and vegetables those are really
good choices of carbohydrates and the
bad carbs would be the more simpler
carbohydrates these are the ones that
don't have any fiber in them at all
things like soda candy even like white
pasta and refined rice I would consider
them a bad carb so let's talk fats
there's so many different kinds when
you'd eat them in moderation
give me some healthy alternatives and
ones that stay away from well in nature
there are different types of fats an
unsaturated fat is usually the better
kind and the monounsaturated fats things
like olive oil and canola oil are
probably the healthiest for your heart
an unhealthy fat would be something
that's manufactured in the factory it's
called a trans fat and what that is is
that they've hydrogenated it in that in
the factory so finally we're able to
cook I'm here in the kitchen and I'm
about to make my fully balanced healthy
breakfast for you guys so what I did
first I just took some whole-wheat toast
which is a really great carbohydrate
were you we've got some color on there
little golden brown color it's really
simple so we're just gonna spread this
almond butter right on to our
whole-wheat toast
now we're gonna close this guy and we're
just gonna really nicely cut it in half
oh man this already looks so good we're
gonna open it up like that
now in this pan I just put it simple
that's the tiniest amount of olive oil
on there give it a nice light Sheen in
the bottom of the pan so it makes it
really easy to cook an egg you don't
really want a lot of color you want to
keep it nice and white and we're gonna
set that right on top so now we're gonna
carefully slice some banana and now for
the kicker so we're gonna take a little
bit of maple syrup and we're just gonna
drizzle it really lightly over the top
it's gonna give us some great sweetness
awesome flavor and there you have it an
almond butter sandwich with a
sunny-side-up egg some sliced bananas
and some really wonderful maple syrup
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