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What is one nutritional choice that you can make today to reduce your risk of chronic disease tomorrow?Your response should be a minimum of 5 sentences but should not exceed 250 words. Appropriately cite any of the references that you use to fully answer the questions.
Best nutritional choice to prevent Chronic diseases in the future:
Nutritional choices of an individual plays an important role in determining his present as well as the future health. Poor Nutritional choice like high fat , high Carbohydrate diet along with physical inactivity possess a great risk of chronic diseases , such as Diabetes Mellitus and Hypertension. To reduce the risk of chronic diseases for tomorrow one can can have healthy balanced diet , as the best nutritional choice, which contains whole grains , lean meat , fruits , vegetables and low fat dairy products. The diet should contain adequate Carbohydrates from Whole grains , fruits and vegetables , not from artificial sweeteners and processed foods. Also the diet should supply adequate protien mainly from plant source, fish and lean meat . The healthy diet should have low fat content , especially low in saturated fats and triglycerides , which can increase the LDL and can cause cardiovascular diseases , instead have the monounsaturated and polyunsaturated fats. The diet should contain various food groups to get the needed vitamin and minerals to the body. Along with the ' healthy balanced diet ' , regular physical exercise also important to reduce the risk of Chronic diseases for tomorrow.
( * LDL : Low Density Lipoprotein , bad cholesterol)