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A balanced diet
Experts agree: one of the key ways to help maintain our health, and improve our quality of life and longevity, is to eat a healthy balanced diet combined with an active, healthy lifestyle.
A balanced diet is based on fruits, vegetables and starchy foods (preferably whole grain) with smaller amounts of lean meat, fish, nuts and dairy foods. Foods high in fat or sugar should form the smallest part of a healthy diet.
The importance of a balanced diet and lifestyle is becoming far more evident as we see the increasing number of published research articles showing the benefits of good nutrition and health.
Almost every day, another piece of research or news story promotes the benefits of our dietary choices - especially the benefits of eating more fruits and vegetables.
Fruits and vegetables offer an unparalleled array of nutritional substances, ie essential antioxidant micronutrients, vitamins, minerals, phytonutrients – nutrition in a form that cannot be replicated. The thousands of nutrients found in fruits and vegetables work together in synergy in ways that science is just beginning to explore.
The message is clear: we need more of the whole food nutrition of fruits and vegetables in our diets, every day. It’s the one thing everyone agrees we can do to improve our health.
The European Commission agrees with the World Health Organization's advise "to adopt a nutritionally rich and balanced diet mainly based on a great variety of whole foods from plants, and therefore eating at least 400-600g of different types of fruits and vegetables, preferably local, every day."
This recommendation is reinforced through public national campaigns all over the world with slogans encouraging us to "Eat at least 5 a day".
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A balanced diet is based on fruits, vegetables and starchy foods (preferably whole grain) with smaller amounts of lean meat, fish, nuts and dairy foods. Foods high in fat or sugar should form the smallest part of a healthy diet.
The importance of a balanced diet and lifestyle is becoming far more evident as we see the increasing number of published research articles showing the benefits of good nutrition and health.
Almost every day, another piece of research or news story promotes the benefits of our dietary choices - especially the benefits of eating more fruits and vegetables.
Fruits and vegetables offer an unparalleled array of nutritional substances, ie essential antioxidant micronutrients, vitamins, minerals, phytonutrients – nutrition in a form that cannot be replicated. The thousands of nutrients found in fruits and vegetables work together in synergy in ways that science is just beginning to explore.
The message is clear: we need more of the whole food nutrition of fruits and vegetables in our diets, every day. It’s the one thing everyone agrees we can do to improve our health.
The European Commission agrees with the World Health Organization's advise "to adopt a nutritionally rich and balanced diet mainly based on a great variety of whole foods from plants, and therefore eating at least 400-600g of different types of fruits and vegetables, preferably local, every day."
This recommendation is reinforced through public national campaigns all over the world with slogans encouraging us to "Eat at least 5 a day".
Learn More
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