Canada's Guidelines For Healthy Eating
Canada's Guidelines for Healthy Eating have been designed to help people make good
food choices. These are the five components of the guidelines:
• Enjoy a VARIETY of foods –
this helps you to get all of the nutrients your body needs each day.
• Emphasize cereals, breads, other grain products, vegetables and
fruit – this helps you to get the vitamins and minerals your body needs
each day. It also helps you to get enough fibre, which also helps to keep you healthy.
• Choose lower fat dairy products, leaner meats, and foods prepared
with little or no fat – this helps you to reduce the
amount of fat that you eat each day. This helps you to have a healthy body weight
and can protect you from many diseases.
• Achieve and maintain a healthy body weight by enjoying regular
physical activity and healthy eating – a healthy body
weight is important in protecting you from many diseases, as well as to give you
lots of energy and to feel good about yourself.
• Limit salt, alcohol, and caffeine – these are substances
your body does not need, so replace them with foods and nutrients that will help
your body to grow and develop to its potential.