The Eat Well Dish

What benefits us?

This tool is intended to provide guidance and offer practical options to integrate a proper diet, appropriate to each culture, customs, needs and possibilities of each individual to learn to balance your food in a practical and simple.
- A graphical display of the portions that must exist at every meal.- It provides easy identification of food groups to create healthy menus.- And neither group is privileged over another.
Classifies food into three groups
Vegetables and fruit provide vitamins, minerals and fiber, as well as color and texture to the diet. As an example of this group have the orange, banana, papaya, broccoli, carrots and squash, among others.
Remember it is important to include in the diet five portions of fruit or vegetables a day, preferably raw and from the station.

Cereals: are the main source of energy the body uses to perform their daily activities so their use is essential for the proper organ function. This group includes corn, rice, wheat and oats. It is better to eat whole grains for their fiber intake.

Legumes and foods of animal origin is the group that provides protein.

Among the legumes will find: beans, lentils and beans. Its use is recommended for one to two times a week.

Foods of animal origin also contribute saturated fat (cholesterol), so that their consumption should be limited to a quarter of your plate.

"A proper diet along with physical activity, are the building blocks that allow us to maintain good health," says nutritional adviser.

How to know if it is a good diet?
The following points will help you find this answer:
Complete: This means that contains all the food groups and therefore all nutrients. This is achieved by including at least one food from each group at each meal.
Balanced: The nutrients proportionately to each other, integrating food menus.
Enough: You have to meet the nutritional needs of each person according to age, sex, height, physical activity or physiological state.
Varied: including different foods from the three groups in each meal.
Hygienic: To be prepared, served and consumed for cleaning.
Suitable: For different tastes, customs and their availability.
It may sound complicated, but it is actually easier than it seems.
"The only limitation that exists for a proper diet is the imagination that we have to create healthy combinations," said the expert.
This is important, do not forget to approach nutrition expert and that will give you information and guide you to solve all your doubts.