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Healthy intake creates sensible parliament (8,4)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

balanced diet

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'healthy intake' is the definition.
Although both the answer and definition are singular nouns, I cannot see how one could define the other.

'sensible parliament' is the wordplay.
'sensible' becomes 'balanced' (I can't justify this - if you can you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'parliament' becomes 'diet' (I've seen this before).
'balanced'+'diet'='BALANCED DIET'

'creates' is the link.

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