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Balanced diet tips: Include a variety of vegetables and fruits in your diet

Eat a balanced meal including all food groups is something that health experts recommend regularly. Eating calorie-restrictive diets or diets which restrict on limiting intake of food groups like fats or carbs are not sustainable in nature. They may help you lose weight quickly, but may put you at risk of nutritional deficiencies and may also lead to side effects like too much cravings or irritability and mood swings. In order to feel healthy, fit and happy, it is important to consume a balanced diet which includes proteins, carbs, fats and fibre equally.

When you consume a balanced diet, it can help you lose weight and maintain your target weight. A balanced and nourishing diet enables your body to perform all functions effectively and helps you be disease-free.

Celebrity nutritionist Rujuta Diwekar's 3:2:1 proportion of eating meals involves filling half of your plate with rice, roti or millets, 35% of it with dal/sabzi or meat, and 15% of with papad/pickle/salad/curd etc.

This pattern of eating may seem to technical, but when applied it in real time, you will realise that it is the age-old pattern of eating in a way which allows for maximum nutrients and enhances taste. "In simpler words - maintain a 3:2:1 ration between grains: dal/sabzi: pickle/salad/curd," Diwekar writes in her Instagram post, while sharing the benefits of eating in this proportion.

Divide your plate in 3:2:1 proportion to get all nutrientsPhoto Credit: iStock

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Benefits of eating 3:2:1 proportion:

Nutritionist Nmami Agarwal, on the other hand, share another interesting way of eating a balanced diet. Ask her about should a plate look for a balanced meal and she says, "Fill half of your plate with vegetables, a little over a quarter of the plate with whole grains and 1/4th of plate with protein."

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Drinking sufficient water is an important part of consuming a balanced dietPhoto Credit: iStock

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(Rujuta Diwekar is a nutritionist based in Mumbai)

(Nmami Agarwal is nutritionist at Nmami Life)

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