Guidelines Dietary - Eat For Health

GUIDELINE 2• Enjoy a wide variety of nutritious foods 312.1 Enjoy a wide variety of nutritious foods 322.1.1 Setting the scene 322.1.2 The evidence for consuming ‘a wide variety of nutritious foods’ 322.1.3 How consuming a wide variety of nutritious foods may improve health outcomes 332.1.4 Practical considerations: enjoy a wide variety of nutritious foods 332.2 Enjoy plenty of vegetables, including different types and colours,and legumes/beans, and enjoy fruit 362.2.1 Setting the scene 362.2.2 The evidence for consuming ‘plenty of vegetables’ 362.2.3 The evidence for consuming ‘plenty of legumes/beans’ 382.2.4 The evidence for consuming ‘fruit’ 392.2.5 How consuming plenty of vegetables, including different types and colours, andlegumes/beans, and fruit may improve health outcomes 402.2.6 Practical considerations: enjoy plenty of vegetables, including different types andcolours, legumes/beans, and enjoy fruit 422.3 Enjoy grain (cereal) foods, mostly wholegrain and/or high cereal fibre varieties 442.3.1 Setting the scene 442.3.2 The evidence for consuming ‘grain (cereal) foods, mostly wholegrain and/or high cerealfibre varieties’ 452.3.3 How consuming grain (cereal) foods, mostly wholegrain and/or high cereal fibre varietiesmay improve health outcomes 462.3.4 Practical considerations: enjoy grain (cereal) foods, mostly wholegrain and/or high cerealfibre varieties 462.4 Enjoy lean meats and poultry, fish, eggs, tofu, nuts and seeds,and legumes/beans 482.4.1 Setting the scene 482.4.2 The evidence for consuming ‘lean meats and poultry, fish, eggs, tofu, nuts and seeds,and legumes/beans’ 492.4.3 How consuming lean meats and poultry, fish, eggs, tofu, nuts and seeds, and legumes/beansmay improve health outcomes 522.4.4 Practical considerations: enjoy lean meats and poultry, fish, eggs, tofu, nuts and seeds,and legumes/beans 522.5 Enjoy milk, yoghurt, cheese and/or alternatives, mostly reduced fat 562.5.1 Setting the scene 562.5.2 The evidence for consuming ‘milk, yoghurt, cheese and/or alternatives, mostly reduced fat’ 562.5.3 How consuming milk, yoghurt, cheese and/or alternatives, mostly reduced fat, may improvehealth outcomes 582.5.4 Practical considerations: enjoy milk, yoghurt, cheese and/or alternatives, mostly reduced fat 582.6 Drink plenty of water 612.6.1 Setting the scene 612.6.2 The evidence for ‘drink plenty of water’ 612.6.3 How drinking plenty of water may improve health outcomes 632.6.4 Practical considerations: drink plenty of water 632.7 Practice guide for Guideline 2 64viiiEAT FOR HEALTH – australian dietary guidelinesNational Health and Medical Research Council