Eating a balanced diet

Eating a healthy, balanced diet is an important part of maintaining good health, and can help you feel your best.

This means eating a wide variety of foods in the right proportions, and consuming the right amount of food and drink to achieve and maintain a healthy bo

Food groups in our diet

The Eatwell Guide shows that to have a healthy, balanced diet, people should try to:

• eat 5 A Day
• base meals on starchy foods like potatoes, bread, rice or pasta
• have some dairy or dairy alternatives (such as soya drinks)
• eat some beans, pulses, fish, eggs, meat and other protein
• choose unsaturated oils and spreads, eaten in small amounts
• If you're having foods and drinks that are high in fat, salt and sugar, have these less often and in small amounts.
• Most people in the UK eat and drink too many calories, too much fat, sugar and salt, and not enough fruit, vegetables, oily fish or fibre.
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