Healthy Diet
A healthy diet is essential for good health and nutrition. It protects you against many chronic noncommunicable diseases, such as heart disease, diabetes and cancer. Eating a variety of foods and consuming less salt, sugars and saturated and industrially-produced trans-fats, are essential for healthy diet.
The 4 building blocks of food
Different foods contain different essential nutrients and eating a wide variety of nutritious foods is the key to building a solid foundation of health.
Vegetables come from many different parts of the plant, including the leaves, roots, tubers, flowers, stems, etc.
Daily exercise + smart eating = healthy weight
To achieve and maintain a healthy weight, be
physically active and choose amounts of
nutritious food and drinks to meet your energy
needs
Less of the bad, more of the good
Enjoy a wide variety of nutritious foods from the
Five Food Groups every day and drink plenty of
water. Limit intake of foods containing saturated
fat, added salt, added sugars and alcohol