Preschool children need 3 regular meals and 2 snacks a day. They enjoy eating with their parents. It is important for you to serve as a good model for your child by eating a balanced diet with a variety of vegetables and fruits. This helps your child develop healthy eating habits in early stage. Food pyramid tells you the food groups that you should eat more and what you should eat less. Follow the Healthy Eating Food Pyramid: By choosing a variety of foods from each food group, it ensures you and your child getting sufficient nutrients.
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Healthy Food for Life
The Food Pyramid guide to every day food choices for adults, teenagers and children aged five and over. Do you want to feel good and have more energy? Eating a wide variety of nourishing foods provides the energy and nutrients you need every day to stay healthy. Plan what you eat using these tips.
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Consuming a healthy diet throughout a person’s life helps prevent malnutrition in all its forms as well as a range of diet-related noncommunicable diseases and conditions. But the increased consumption of processed food, rapid urbanization and changing lifestyles have led to a shift in dietary patterns. People are now consuming more foods high in energy, fats and free sugars or salt/sodium, and many do not eat enough fibre-rich fruits, vegetables and whole grains. What is a healthy diet? See what the WHO has to say?
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Food contains various types of nutrients to keep us healthy. For the sake of health, the nutritional value, functions, freshness and hygiene condition of food should be taken into account when we choose what we eat. As we cannot get all the nutrients we need from one single kind of food alone, it is necessary to have a balanced diet to keep us healthy. Eating according to the Healthy Eating Food Pyramid would ensure balanced nutrition. The combination of a healthy diet and regular physical activity can maintain a healthy body weight, thus beneting our health and preventing diet-related diseases such as hypertension, heart disease, stroke, osteoporosis and cancer.
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