Eating a balanced diet means considering all the food groups and making choices from each one to meet your needs for nutrients and calories. Eating a balanced diet also means limiting yourself to appropriate amounts of food at each meal. A diet with an excess of fats, sugars, and sodium but with little fiber is called "unbalanced". An example is a diet high in processed meats and cheeses with cookies and cakes as a snack instead of fruits and vegetables. This type of diet can lead to obesity problems if you eat more than what's good for you. If you eat too few fibers, fluids, and nutrients required by our bodies daily, it will affect our ability to absorb nutrients from our food and waste products from our body will accumulate in our colon. This will lead to constipation issues. If you eat too many processed foods with added sugars and salts but skip the necessary parts of a plant-based diet (fiber, minerals, and vitamins), you're going to end up with another problem: obesity issues related to diabetes and heart disease. An unbalanced diet can be made up of any number of bad dietary practices.