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Eating the right foods
People who eat a wide variety of food are healthier, live longer and have reduced risk of developing lifestyle illness. Food choices can influence your risk of developing illnesses such as:
- heart disease
- cancer
- diabetes
Food Guide Pyramid
Food variety means eating a variety of foods across the whole range of food types, such as
- vegetables
- fruit
- meat
- fish
- dairy products – milk, cheese, butter, yoghurt
- cereals – wheat, oats, rice, barley
- fatty foods - sweets, chocolate, crisps (not too many of these!)
To help you build a healthy diet, the Food Guide Pyramid gives the number of servings you should try to eat from each part of the pyramid every day
Exercise
To keep fit most people need about one hour of moderate activity a day, just enough to make you breathe more heavily than usual. You can read more about keeping fit in our article on fitness.
Eat well, be well – Food Standards Agency
This government site tells you the things you could eat to help your skin look great and keep your body feeling good.
5 a day – Department of health
Five portions of fruit and vegetables per person per day help reduce the risk of some cancers, heart disease and many other chronic conditions.
5 a day - NHS
Explore this website to find out how you can make giant steps to eating well and feeling good
Need2know
Need2know is a web site that aims to provide young people with some of the most useful web site links available and has many articles on keeping fit
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