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Home > Healthy Eating > Dietary advice > Healthy eating for kids Healthy eating for kidsHealthy eating means eating a wide variety of nutritious foods from all of the food groups. These foods contain lots of vitamins, minerals and fibre. Eating a wide variety of foods from all food groups will help you grow. Some foods contain too much sugar or fat and not many vitamins or minerals. These are foods we should only eat sometimes. The foods you eat have been divided into three groups according to how nutritious they are. These make up what is often called the ‘food pyramid’. You can use these groups to help you decide which foods to eat more of and which to eat less often. Group 1: Eat these foods most of the time You should try to eat lots of:
Plant foods contain thousands of nutrients (small parts), which can help to prevent serious diseases. This is why it is important to eat a variety of different types of plant foods. Group 2: Eat these foods moderately These foods are important for health, so you should eat them in medium amounts:
Group 3: Eat these foods sometimes These foods don’t give us very many nutrients and are really just ‘extras’. They may contain lots of sugar or fat (or both) but often don’t have many vitamins, minerals or fibre. It’s OK to have these ‘sometimes foods’ if you are healthy, active and not overweight. Most of the time they are better left for special occasions like birthday parties. An example of one serve of these foods includes:
The three groups of foods you eat from are often shown as a food pyramid:
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