Q3. What Types of Food Should Most Healthy Diets Contain?

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Q1. How does the healthy eating model The Eatwell Guide support people in consuming a healthy diet?

People can use this healthy eating model as a guide to the proportions of food from each food group that should be eaten to ensure a healthy balanced diet. The Guide applies to most people regardless of weight, dietary restrictions/preferences or ethnic origin.

Q2. What sort of foods that could be found in the Beans, pulses, fish, eggs, meat and other proteins food group?

Lean cuts of meat, leaner mince, fish including oily fish, eggs, beans, peas and lentils

Q3. What types of food should most healthy diets contain?

Most healthy diets should contain lean meat in moderate amounts, starchy carbohydrates (including wholegrain foods), plenty of fruit and vegetables and moderate amounts of milk and dairy foods. If foods high in fat, salt and/or sugars should be consumer less often and in small amounts.

Q4. What is the current advice from the Department of Health on eating red and processed meat?

Adults who eat over 90g of red and processed meat a day should reduce their intake to 70g a day on average.

Q5. Complete the following sentences.

a) 1 gram of carbohydrate provides 16 kilojoules.

b) 1 gram protein provides 17 kilojoules.

c) 1 gram of fat provides 37 kilojoules.

d) The energy and fat content of untrimmed cuts of

red meat is higher than lean cuts of red meat.

Dietary protein is essential for growth, maintenance and repair of the body. Some of the amino acids, which make up protein, cannot be synthesized by the body. These amino acids need to be provided by the diet in order for all the body’s protein needs to be provided.

Q7. How has the fat content of red meat been reduced since the 1950s?

Advances in food processing technologies, breeding programmes, changes in animal feeds and modern butchery techniques have led to a decline in the fat content of carcase meat.

Q8. Which B vitamins are provided by red meat?

The following B vitamins can be found in red meat: Thiamin Riboflavin Niacin B6 B12

Q9. What role does iron play in the body?

Iron is essential for the formation of haemoglobin in red blood cells. It also plays an important role in the immune system and is required for normal energy metabolism.

Q10. What functions in the body need the mineral zinc?

Zinc is essential for cell division and therefore for growth and tissue repair. It is also necessary for normal reproductive development, a healthy immune system and healing of wounds.