Question

In a nutritious diet, the foods provide sufficient quantities of essential nutrients, fiber, and energy to maintain health and body weight. This principle of diet planning is called _____. Group of answer choices

Answer 1

Answer:

Adequacy

Explanation:

There are four aspects of a healthy and nutritious diet, which are, balance, variety, moderation, adequacy

Adequacy in nutrition can be defined as the consumption of the needed nutrients, to reach the required amount of nutrients for attaining the best health possible. A given nutrient may be required to be taken more or less depending on the adequacy criteria.

The adequacy criteria are;

Deficiency disease prevention

Reduction or prevention of chronic diseases

Diseases associated with poor diet reduction

Maintaining physiological balance requirement.