27/03/2022
Some Key healthy diet facts
A healthy diet helps to protect against
malnutrition in all its forms, as well as
noncommunicable diseases (NCDs), including
such as diabetes, heart disease, stroke and cancer.
Unhealthy diet and lack of physical activity are leading global risks to health.
Healthy dietary practices start early in life –breastfeeding fosters healthy growth and improves cognitive development, and may have
longer term health benefits such as reducing the risk of becoming overweight or obese and
developing NCDs later in life.
Energy intake (calories) should be in balance with energy expenditure. To avoid unhealthy weight gain, total fat should not exceed 30% of total energy intake.
Intake of saturated fats should be less than 10% of total energy intake, and intake of trans-fats less than 1% of
total energy intake, with a shift in fat
consumption away from saturated fats and trans-fats to unsaturated fats (3), and towards the goal of eliminating industrially-produced
trans-fats.
Limiting intake of free sugars to less than 10% of total energy intake (2, 7) is part of a healthy diet. A further reduction to less than 5% of total
energy intake is suggested for additional health benefits.
Keeping salt intake to less than 5 g per day (equivalent to sodium intake of less than 2 g
per day) helps to prevent hypertension, and
reduces the risk of heart disease and stroke in
the adult population.
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