Nutrition and a healthy lifestyle are recognized as key factors in building and maintaining health and well-being. Improving nutrition is also a public health issue. What if the key to well-being was to adopt a varied and balanced diet, possibly supported by food supplements, over the long term? Here are our explanations.
Don’t forget that a balanced diet is not built on a single meal or a single day, but rather on the week. This is why there are no forbidden foods or miracle foods. It’s all a question of choice and quantity.
Balanced diet
The food pyramid is a reference tool for approaching a balanced diet, it proposes a hierarchy and makes it possible to distinguish between foods to be favoured, those that are tolerated and those that are to be consumed occasionally.
Not a meal without fruits and vegetables: These foods have real health benefits, they have a low energy density and are high in micronutrients, fibre and antioxidants.
Fibres are our « appetite suppressant » allies, they help to stimulate the feeling of satiety and are essential to the proper functioning of the intestine because they are involved in the regulation of intestinal transit.
=> According to the first results of the Nutrinet santé study, the average dietary fibre intake is 18.8g/day in the French. This consumption remains insufficient with regard to nutritional recommendations because only 22% of men and 12% of women reach the threshold of 25g/day which is the recommended minimum.
« 5 fruits and vegetables per day » what does this recommendation mean?
Often misunderstood by consumers, it means 5 portions of fruit and/or vegetables, for example 3 portions of vegetables and 2 portions of fruit. One serving represents between 80 and 100 grams.
One portion? One apple, one pear, one tomato, 15 grapes, ½ zucchini, 2 apricots, a handful of green beans, etc.
Favour seasonal plants: they have many advantages: they are tastier, richer in vitamins and minerals and economical but also ecological.