A balanced diet
- 1. Balanced Diet and healthy eating habits
- 2. What´s a balanced diet? • Diet is the food and drink that a person regularly consumes. • A balanced diet or varied diet is a diet that includes a wide variety of foods from the six groups of nutrients: Carbohydrates, vitamins, minerals, proteins, fats and water.
- 3. How many meals should we eat a day? • We should eat five meals a day: Breakfast, a snack at break time, lunch, a snack at tea time and dinner. • Breakfast is the most important meal. We should have milk, cereals, fruit etc. • A snack: You can eat a sandwich, fruit, yoghurt etc. • Lunch: We should eat a variety of foods like vegetables, pasta, meat, fish or eggs. • Dinner: We should eat a variety of foods like in lunch, but we shouldn´t consume many things.
- 4. What´s a healthy diet? • If we follow a balanced diet and we eat five meals a day, thus we will have a healthy diet. • Do you follow a healthy diet?
- 5. Do you have good eating habits? • You should follow these tips: • Wash your hands before you eat • Sit properly and chew your food slowly • After you eat, you should brush your teeth
- 6. Do you want to be healthy? • Follow a healthy diet, avoid unhealthy food and practice some sport.