Healthy Diet

Healthy Diet is the eating healthy, a wide variety of foods in the right proportions, and consuming the right amount of food and drink to achieve and maintain a healthy body weight that is an important part of maintaining good health, and can help people feel best. The Healthy Diet provides the body with essential nutrition: fluid, macronutrients, micronutrients, and adequate calories.

Reference Definition by WHO: A Healthy Diet helps protect against malnutrition in all its forms, as well as noncommunicable diseases (NCDs), including diabetes, heart disease, stroke and cancer. Unhealthy diet and lack of physical activity are leading global risks to health. Key Facts for the Healthy Diet: Healthy dietary practices start early in life; Energy intake (calories) should be in balance, total fat should not exceed 30% of total energy; Limiting intake of free sugars to less than 10% of total energy intake; A further reduction to less than 5% of total energy intake; Keeping salt intake to less than 5 g per day.