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Despite what you see in some diet books and TV programmes, healthy eating can be really straightforward. Food groups All the food we eat can be divided into five groups. Try to choose a variety of different foods from the first four groups. They are: Fruit and vegetables. Most people in the UK eat and drink too many calories, and too much fat, sugar and salt, and not enough fruit, vegetables and fibre. 1. Fruit and vegetables are a vital source of vitamins and minerals. There's evidence that people who eat at least five portions a day are at lower risk of heart disease, stroke and some cancers. What's more, eating five portions is not as hard as it might sound. Having a sliced banana with your morning cereal is a quick way to get one portion. See 5 A DAY for more tips to help you get your five portions of fruit and veg. 2. Starchy foods should make up around one third of everything we eat. Potatoes are an excellent choice of a starchy food and a good source of fibre. 3. 4. 5.

Leisure Public parks were initially set aside for recreation and leisure and sport Leisure, or free time, is time spent away from business, work, and domestic chores. It also excludes time spent on necessary activities such as sleeping and, where it is compulsory, education. The distinction between leisure and unavoidable activities is not a rigidly defined one, e.g. people sometimes do work-oriented tasks for pleasure as well as for long-term utility.[1] A distinction may also be drawn between free time and leisure. Another concept of leisure is social leisure, which involves leisurely activities in a social settings, such as extracurricular activities, e.g. sports, clubs. Leisure studies is the academic discipline concerned with the study and analysis of leisure. Cultural differences[edit] Time available for leisure varies from one society to the next, although anthropologists have found that hunter-gatherers tend to have significantly more leisure time than people in more complex societies.

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