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1. IMPORTANCE OF FOOD HABITS
Almudena Fernández

2. What are your eating habits?
Importance of healthy eating habits.
What is a healthy diet?
Food pyramid
Mediterranean Diet
Water: Essential for Life
Importance of physical activity
Healthy Decalogue

3. What are eating
habits?
Can be defined as the habits acquired
during life that influence our food.
Eating a balanced, varied and
sufficient diet accompanied by
physical exercise is perfect to be
healthy.
A varied diet should include foods
from all food groups in sufficient
quantities to meet our energy and
nutrient needs.

4. Importance of healthy eating habits
To stay healthy and strong, it is very important to have adequate food.
Not only is the amount of food we eat, but also its quality, as both influence the
proper maintenance of our health.
Therefore it is necessary to know what gives us each food, so knowing how to choose
a dish or menu healthier.

5. What is a healthy diet?
The food we eat during the day should be divided
into five outlets:
• Breakfast
• Lunch
• Dinner
• Mid-morning snack and snack

6. Food pyramid
It is a guide that helps us learn how
to choose foods that we include in
our diet, thus achieving a healthy,
varied and balanced diet in a simple
way.

7. Mediterranean
Diet
The Mediterranean Diet is based on
the consumption of olive oil, bread,
fruits, nuts, vegetables, legumes, fish,
eggs, cheese, yogurt, and rice.
This diet is associated with an active
lifestyle and healthy life, which is
performed daily exercise.

8. Water: Essential for life
Water is the main component of
the human body, accounting for
between 50-70% of body
weight.
An adequate hydration is
essential if we are to maintain
physical and mental health.

9. Importance of psysical activity
The practice of daily exercise is vital for proper
health.
Therefore it is desirable to reduce the time dedicated
to sedentary activities or tasks as sitting at the
computer, video games or watch TV.
Physical activity provides many benefits for health10.

10. Healthy tips
1/ Choose a varied diet, this ensures consumption of all nutrients required for maintenance your health
2/ Eat everyday foods from all groups, to ensure a varied and healthy diet
3/ Include in your diet five servings of fruits and vegetables to ensure good health
4/ Respect your mealtimes; recalls that at least to do three meals a day, but ideally are five meals
5/ Reduce intake of saturated fats and avoid fast foods
6/ Monitor your body weight
7/ Avoid sugary drinks
8/ Do exercise every day