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Use the nutrition panel and GDAs to compare different products when
shopping and to keep an eye on what you are eating.
You will soon see how you can fit many different foods into a healthy diet and where you might need to make some changes to your eating habits. For more ideas see "Your options".
SPOT THE DIFFERENCE
Look at the nutrition information on food labels to see what you
are eating – especially the energy content and amounts of
fat, saturated fat, salt and sugars in your food. For example, see
how much energy and the amount of certain nutrients there are in
the two types of pizza shown here and compare this with the adult
GDAs, see table in the right hand column.
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DO YOUR SUMS
GDAs set out daily totals but this doesn’t mean you have to
track everything you eat all day, every day. After all not everything
you eat has a nutrition label. Even so, GDAs can be very useful
to help you make smart choices for meals and snacks.
When planning your day, for example, breakfast should provide about
20% of your GDAs for each nutrient, your two main meals should each
provide about 30% which leaves about 20% for food and drinks at
other times.
If you are buying a ready meal and it only provides a quarter of
the energy you need a day but as much as half the fat, then you
know it’s relatively high in fat. That’s not to say
you can’t eat it, but watch the fat in your next meals or
snacks.
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Chicken
Korma
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Chicken
Jalfrezi
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REMEMBER |
FOOD PROVIDES ENERGY. TO STAY IN GOOD SHAPE, AIM TO BALANCE
THE ENERGY YOU CONSUME WITH THE ENERGY YOU BURN. COMBINE A
HEALTHY DIET WITH REGULAR PHYSICAL ACTIVITY
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EAT
IN, EAT OUT |
ONCE YOU HAVE AN IDEA ABOUT THE
NUTRIENT CONTENT OF THE PREPARED
FOODS YOU BUY, YOU CAN USE THIS
KNOWLEDGE WHEN EATING OUT OR
COOKING AT HOME. REMEMBER THAT
PORTION SIZES ARE OFTEN LARGER
WHEN YOU EAT OUT.
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