Characteristics of a healthy diet

| For a diet to be balanced and healthy, it must meet a series of basic characteristics that may vary depending on the person, their age or lifestyle, among other factors.

It is considered that a diet is healthy, when the foods that are consumed together with other factors such as lifestyle (sedentary, active), age and physiological situation (pregnancy, lactation, childhood, adolescence, old age) provide the necessary nutrients to maintain the health of the organism, at the present time and also in the future.

Characteristics for a healthy diet

There are a number of characteristics that correspond to a correct diet, What:

• Be varied. It must be made up of, since there is no food that, by itself, provides all the nutrients.
• Enough in energy and nutrients to maintain vital functions and daily activities, both physical and intellectual.
• Adapted to physiological needs (pregnancy, lactation, adolescence ...), geographic region, religion and culture.
• Balanced, Respecting the recommended percentages of the different nutrients, being: carbohydrates or sugars 50-60%, fats 30-35% and proteins 10-15%.

In order to adapt these nutritional requirements to the population, the food guides. These guides are educational tools with practical and simple messages, to make it easier for people to choose and eat healthy foods.

Food Pyramid

Currently the instrument most used by the Spanish Society of Community Nutrition is the healthy eating pyramid, which separates foods according to: if their daily and / or occasional consumption is recommended.

In addition to knowing the characteristics of a healthy diet and trying to follow it daily, he offers you a series of coverage focused on obesity prevention.

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