Balanced eating is a dietary pattern that supplies the body with the appropriate proportions of energy and essential nutrients—including carbohydrates, proteins, fats, vitamins, minerals, and fiber—to support health and prevent disease. It emphasizes variety and moderation across food groups, ensuring adequate intak…
Balanced eating is a dietary pattern that supplies the body with the appropriate proportions of energy and essential nutrients—including carbohydrates, proteins, fats, vitamins, minerals, and fiber—to support health and prevent disease. It emphasizes variety and moderation across food groups, ensuring adequate intake of nutrient-dense foods while limiting excesses that contribute to chronic conditions such as obesity, cardiovascular disease, and type 2 diabetes. Nutrition research frames balanced eating through dietary guidelines and educational tools that translate nutritional science into practical food choices. The journal's research engages directly with these principles: "Food Pyramid—The Principles of a Balanced Diet" (2020) explains the structure and rationale behind balanced dietary recommendations, "Vegetarianism in Food-Based Dietary Guidelines" (2015) examines how plant-based eating is represented in national guidance, and "Culture and Mediterranean Diet" (2019) explores a well-studied balanced dietary pattern in its cultural context. Together these studies illustrate how balanced eating is defined, communicated, and adapted across populations and food traditions. This page gathers peer-reviewed, open-access research relevant to balanced eating, supporting researchers, dietitians, and readers seeking evidence on dietary patterns, nutritional adequacy, and the role of balanced diets in health promotion and disease prevention.
7 peer-reviewed articles, ranked by relevance. Each links to its DOI.
The 7 articles above have been cited 64 times in the scholarly literature. Citation data via OpenAlex and Crossref, updated Jun 2026.
A sample of recent works citing this journal's research on Balanced Eating, linking to each citing work.