Summary:
The Food-Based Dietary Guidelines aims to promote healthy eating by enhancing access to evidence-based nutrition and health information.
Description:
The Food-Based Dietary Guidelines provide a framework for guiding policy decisions to help achieve national nutrition targets. It provides national recommendations to promote healthy diets, improve nutritional status, and prevent diet-related non-communicable diseases (Section 2).
The Guidelines encourage the consumption of a diverse and balanced diet based on six food groups and promote regular intake of fruits, vegetables, legumes, pulses, nuts, animal-source foods, whole grains, cereals, and tubers. Moreover, it recommends limiting the consumption of foods and ingredients high in sugar, fat, and salt and encourage the use of healthy fats and oils in moderation.
Furthermore, it encourages consumers to read food labels and nutrition information to make informed food choices. It also supports nutrition education and incentivizes to be physically active.
Lastly, for FULL purposes, these Guidelines brings definitios as the following:
- Healthy diet: it provides the nutrients needed to prevent malnutrition in all its forms and reduce the risk of non-communicable diseases.
- Food: substances that provide nutrients and energy consumed to support human body physiology and performance.