Nutrition
Nutrition is essential for your health.
Good nutrition underpins healthy growth and development. It contributes to your general wellbeing and plays a key role in preventing disease and disability.
Eating well can help prevent heart disease, diabetes, colon cancer, obesity and other health conditions.
Maintaining good nutrition will:
- give you more energy
- help you to feel good
- decrease your risk of falls, fractures and illnesses
- help you maintain a healthy, independent lifestyle
- improve wound healing
- improve your sleep quality
How to improve your nutrition:
It is important to eat a balance of foods from each of the five food groups EVERYDAY.
The five food groups:
- Breads, cereals, rice, pasta, noodles
- Vegetables, salad, legumes
- Fruit
- Milk, yoghurt, cheese
- Lean meat, fish, poultry, nuts and legumes.
Different food groups provide different nutrients, so it is important you eat from ALL groups.