About your body
Healthy Eating
No single food can provide every essential nutrient our bodies need. Fruit and vegetables are very good for you, but eating them alone won’t supply you with the protein you need. If you were to eat only meat and eggs you would get lots of protein but would miss out on many vitamins, carbohydrates and fibres. If you were to eat lots of junk food, you’d be eating lots of fats, carbohydrates, sugar and salt. It is important to eat a ‘balanced diet’.
So what is a balanced diet?
To maintain a healthy balanced diet, it’s important that everyday you eat lots of vegetables, beans, lentils, cereals, breads, fruits and nuts, some meat (with the fat removed), eggs, yoghurt, cheese and milk. And you can also have small amounts of butter, oil and sugar each day.
Look at the Health Eating Pyramid to the right to get an idea of what foods should be eaten most, what you should only eat some of and what you should eat very little, or none of, each day.
Green Eat LOTS of these each day : vegetables, fruit, cereals, pasta
Blue Eat SOME of these foods each day : meat, fish, poultry, eggs
Yellow Eat A LITTLE of these foods each day : milk, cream, yoghurt, cheese, butter
Red Eat A TINY BIT of these foods each day : sugars, oils, fats