BOOST® Balance Your Diet, Balance Your Health Detail Aid€¦ · Balance Your Diet, Balance Your...
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Nutrition is the fuel that helps to keep your body at its best, giving you the ability to breathe, move and think properly. A balanced diet provides that essential nutrition to help you get the right balance of vitamins, minerals, fiber, protein, carbohydrates and other nutrients you need each day. Too much of one nutrient or too little of another and the balance is thrown off. By understanding what nutrients make up a complete and balanced diet and why they’re important, you can help your body by eating properly and supplying it with the nutrients it needs. Take a look at ChooseMyPlate.gov to see which foods contribute to a balanced diet. MyPlate provides tips to help build healthier diets based on appropriate portion sizes of five food groups including fruits, vegetables, grains, dairy and protein. Half of each plate should consist of fruits and vegetables. Most fruits and vegetables are naturally low in fat, sodium and calories, and provide a rich array of many nutrients like potassium, dietary fiber, and vitamins C, A and folic acid. Make at least half of the grains you consume whole grains by eating whole grain cereals, breads, crackers, pasta or rice every day. Whole grains provide dietary fiber, B vitamins and minerals like iron and magnesium. Balance Your Diet, Balance Your Health Get your calcium-rich foods from dairy products every day. MyPlate suggests switching to fat-free or low-fat (1%) milk. Milk and some milk products are also fortified with vitamin D, which is essential for calcium absorption. If you don’t or can’t consume milk due to sensitivity to lactose, choose products that are suitable for people with lactose intolerance. Also, many non-dairy foods contain added calcium, including some breakfast cereals, bread, orange juice and soy milk. Be sure to read the labels carefully to find the ones that are calcium-fortified. Dark green, leafy vegetables also provide calcium. Protein is an important building block of muscle. You can get your daily intake of protein from meats, poultry, fish, eggs, dried beans and peas, nuts and seeds. Beyond protein, these foods are an important source of iron, magnesium, zinc and vitamin E. But we all know how difficult it can be to eat balanced meals. Skip a vegetable at one meal, leave off a whole grain at another, and suddenly you could be lacking some of the key nutrients you need to meet your daily requirements. All trademarks are owned by Société des Produits Nestlé S.A., Vevey, Switzerland, or used with permission. © 2020 Nestlé. BOOS-14881-0420 Just one 8 fl oz bottle of BOOST® High Protein Balanced Nutritional Drink can help fill the nutritional gaps. It’s easy to get back on the right track and maintain a complete and balanced diet. 20 g HIGH-QUALITY PROTEIN 27 VITAMINS & MINERALS 240 NUTRIENT-RICH CALORIES
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Nutrition is the fuel that helps to keep your body at its best, giving you the ability to breathe, move and think properly.
A balanced diet provides that essential nutrition to help you get the right balance of vitamins, minerals, fi ber, protein, carbohydrates and other nutrients you need each day. Too much of one nutrient or too little of another and the balance is thrown o� .
By understanding what nutrients make up a complete and balanced diet and why they’re important, you can help your body by eating properly and supplying it with the nutrients it needs.
Take a look at ChooseMyPlate.gov to see which foods contribute to a balanced diet.
MyPlate provides tipsto help build healthier diets based on appropriate portion sizes of fi ve food groups
including fruits, vegetables, grains, dairy and protein.
Half of each plate should consist of fruits and vegetables. Most fruits and vegetables are naturally low in fat, sodium and calories, and provide a rich array of many nutrients like potassium, dietary fi ber, and vitamins C, A and folic acid.
Make at least half of the grains you consume whole grains by eating whole grain cereals, breads, crackers, pasta or rice every day. Whole grains provide dietary fi ber, B vitamins and minerals like iron and magnesium.
Balance Your Diet, Balance Your Health
Get your calcium-rich foods from dairy products every day. MyPlate suggests switching to fat-free or low-fat (1%) milk. Milk and some milk products are also fortifi ed with vitamin D, which is essential for calcium absorption. If you don’t or can’t consume milk due to sensitivity to lactose, choose products that are suitable for people with lactose intolerance. Also, many non-dairy foods contain added calcium, including some breakfast cereals, bread, orange juice and soy milk. Be sure to read the labels carefully to fi nd the ones that are calcium-fortifi ed. Dark green, leafy vegetables also provide calcium.
Protein is an important building block of muscle. You can get your daily intake of protein from meats, poultry, fi sh, eggs, dried beans and peas, nuts and seeds. Beyond protein, these foods are an important source of iron, magnesium, zinc and vitamin E.
But we all know how di� cult it can be to eat balanced meals. Skip a vegetable at one meal, leave o� a whole grain at another, and suddenly you could be lacking some of the key nutrients you need to meet your daily requirements.
All trademarks are owned by Société des Produits Nestlé S.A., Vevey, Switzerland, or used with permission. © 2020 Nestlé.
BOOS-14881-0420
Just one 8 fl oz bottle of BOOST® High Protein Balanced Nutritional Drink can help fi ll the nutritional gaps.
It’s easy to get back on the right track and maintain a complete and balanced diet.
requirements.
All trademarks are owned by Société des Produits Nestlé S.A., Vevey, Switzerland, or used with permission. © 2020 Nestlé.
Just one 8 fl oz bottle of BOOST® High Protein Balanced Nutritional Drink can help fi ll the nutritional gaps.
It’s easy to get back on the right track and maintain a complete and balanced diet.
20 gHIGH-QUALITY
PROTEIN
27VITAMINS & MINERALS
240NUTRIENT-RICH
CALORIES
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