Healthy Eating
The importance of a healthy and varied diet
A good diet is important for good health. A healthy and varied diet can help to maintain a healthy body weight, enhance general wellbeing and reduce the risk of a number of diseases including heart disease, stroke, cancer, diabetes and osteoporosis.
What is a healthy diet?
A healthy diet is a diet based on breads, potatoes, and other cereals and is rich in fruits and vegetables. A healthy diet will include moderate amounts of milk and dairy products, meat, fish or meat/milk alternatives, and limited amounts of foods containing fat or sugar.
No single food can provide all the essential nutrients that the body needs. Therefore, it is important to consume a wide variety of foods to provide adequate intakes of vitamins, minerals and dietary fibre, which are important for health.
The Balance of Good Health is consistent with the Government’s Eight tips for eating well, published in October 2005, which are:
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Base your meals on starchy foods |
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Eat lots of fruit and veg |
3. |
Eat more fish |
4. |
Cut down on saturated fat and sugar |
5. |
Try to eat less salt – no more than 6g a day |
6. |
Get active and try to be a healthy weight |
7. |
Drink plenty of water |
8. |
Don’t skip breakfast |
Breastfeeding
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Breastfeeding
Breastfeeding your baby
Links
www.bbc.co.uk/parenting/your_kids/babies_feeding.shtml#breastfeeding_after_the_early_days
http://www.babyfriendly.org.uk/
http://www.healthystart.nhs.uk/
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