Healthy Eating Facts
- MALNUTRITION: A healthy diet helps to prevent malnutrition in all its forms (especially true for developing countries).
- NON-COMMUNICABLE DISEASES (NCDs): A nutritious diet protects against NCDs like diabetes, heart disease, stroke and cancer.
- COGNITION: Healthy dietary practices from early life, like breastfeeding, fosters healthy growth and boosts cognitive development.
- ENERGY BALANCE: Energy intake in the form of calories should be equal to energy expenditure in order to maintain a healthy weight.
- Total fat should be less than or equal to 30% of total energy intake.
- Saturated fats should be less than 10% of total energy intake (Examples: fatty beef, lamb, pork, poultry with skin, beef fat, lard and cream, butter, cheese and dairy products made from whole or 2% milk).
- Trans-fats should be less than 1% of total energy intake (Examples: baked items like cakes, cookies and pies, shortening, microwave popcorn, frozen pizza, refrigerated dough of biscuits and rolls, fried foods like french fries, doughnuts and fried chicken, margarine).
- SUGAR BALANCE: Free sugars should be less than 10% of total energy intake.
- Additional health benefits associated with sugar consumption reduced to less than 5% of total energy intake.
- SALT BALANCE: Intake of salt should be less than 5 g per day (equal to sodium intake of less than 2 g per day, usually found on food labels).
- Aids in the prevention of hypertension (high blood pressure), heart disease and stroke.
Resources: World Health Organization, American Heart Association, Mayo Clinic
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