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For your health

Eating and being active count among life’s pleasures and can help you and those dear to you remain in good health. By making the right choices, this can also help you to protect yourself from certain illnesses. The national nutritional health programme offers nutritional recommendations that are entirely compatible with the notions of pleasure and congeniality. Each family of foods has its place on your plate, on a daily basis. All are indispensable to ensure nutritional balance, but consumption of some must be limited, while consumption of others should be favoured

What to do in practice ?

• Eat at least 5 units of fruit or vegetables a day, whether raw, cooked, uncooked, prepared, fresh, frozen or preserved
• Eat bread and cereal-based products, potatoes and legumes (pulses etc.) with each meal and to suit your appetite (favouring whole cereal-based foods)
• Consume at least 3 dairy products a day (milk, yoghurt, cheese) and favour variety
• Eat meat, fish (and other seafood products) or eggs once or twice a day (alternating between the two) – try to eat fish at least twice a week
• Limit your consumption of added fats (butter, oil, crème fraîche, etc.) and fatty products (snacks, pastries, prepared meats, etc.)
• Limit your consumption of sugar and sugary products (soft drinks, sweetened drinks, sweets, chocolate, cakes, desserts, etc.)
• Limit your consumption of salt and favour iodised salt
• Drink plenty of water, during and between meals
• Do not exceed 2 glasses per day of alcoholic beverages for women and 3 glasses for men (2 glasses of wine of 10cl each are equivalent to two small beers or 6cl of spirits)
• Practice a physical activity every day to provide at least the equivalent of 30 minutes of fast walking per day (takes the stairs rather than the lift, favour walking and cycling rather than the car whenever possible, etc.)