Can one live healthy with HIV and AIDS on balanced diet only without arvs

 
In the initial stages of HIV infection, you could probably live a healthy life without taking Anti Retroviral Therapy (ART). However, you would be infective as the viral load would be high. Over time, the virus will destroy the immune system making you prone to contracting various infections and eventually lead to death. A balanced diet alone will not be able to prevent this. ART prevents this from happening. ART controls the multiplication of the virus keeping your viral load at very low to negligible levels. Because of this, the virus cannot destroy the immune system and you remain healthy. The other major effect of ART is that transmissibility of the virus decreases dramatically once your viral load decreases to undetectable levels. It is a good idea to begin ART at the earliest instead of waiting for symptoms to appear.