Nutrition & Food Safety
These days it seems we're bombarded with messages about healthy eating wherever we go. But when it comes down to it, how much do you really know? How easy is it with a hectic lifestyle to achieve a healthy balanced diet? And what actually is that? Learn more about the five food groups that should be part of a healthy diet.
We're encouraging healthy eating from an early age, so we've created the Healthy Snack Challenge for teachers and students. The task is to create a healthy snack menu for schools, with strict nutritional guidelines, budgets and considerations for food storage and safety. Find out more about it and how you can get involved.
A healthy balanced diet is one that's rich in the vitamins and nutrients the body needs in order to work properly. It's important to eat a variety of foods which contain the nutrients you need in their natural form.
If your body becomes deficient in some nutrients this can cause health complications and in the short and long term, and as our bodies can't make minerals and vitamins by themselves, it's vital that they're included in our diets. What's more, some vitamins can be destroyed by heat or exposure to air, so it's important that you store and cook your food in a way that keeps all the good stuff in.
So what are the different types of vitamins and nutrients and how do you go about making sure you get the right amount? We'll guide your through all of these questions and more, so you can understand more about what your body needs and how to get it. Read about a range of topics including, obesity, eating too little and food safety.
