Consider following statements.

A. A balanced diet should include all nutrients along with roughages and water.

B. Getting balanced diet is not so expensive.

C. Balanced diet requirement is different for different age group.

D. Balanced diet depends upon amount of physical work.

Which among following statements are correct?

Concept:

Balanced diet:

• The diet containing all required nutrients in the proper amount, along with water and roughages is called a balanced diet. 
• A balanced diet ensures proper growth and protects us from diseases. 
• It depends upon person to person depending on age and physical work performed.

Explanation:

• The balanced diet is not the same for persons in different age groups. 
• When a child, a person is in the growing stage and diet is according to that. 
• Also, a person performing more physical work will require more energy in form of carbohydrates. 
• Excess of any nutrition is also harmful. 
• A balanced diet is affordable and not so expensive.
• The foods like Pulses, groundnut, soybean, sprouted seeds (moong and Bengal gram), fermented foods (South Indian foods such as idlis), a combination of flours (missi roti, thepla made from cereals and pulses), banana, spinach, sattu, jaggery are not so expensive and are very nutritious. 

So, All the statements A,B, C and D are correct.