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| Put the Best into Your Body |
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To help you achieve that perfect body, here are some suggestions on staying in shape - the healthy way. First determine if you are really overweight. Use a trusted measure such as the international Body Mass Index (or BMI). Simply specify your height and current weight and your BMI will show if you are within your ideal weight range or not.
If you are counting kilojoules, here is an easy way to determine the kilojoule intake of your next meal - the Clover Kilojoule Counter.
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| Nation Needs to Move on Diet and Exercise |
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South Africa, like many other countries, is facing a crisis when it comes to physical well being, nutrition and exercise. Our kids are getting larger, eating badly and exercising less. Regular Physical Education (PE) is not a feature in the majority of our government schools, and frantic working parents are seemingly not successful in guiding their children to a healthy approach to what they eat, and what they do.
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| Guidelines for a Balanced Diet |
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Use our food pyramid as a guideline for preparing a balanced, nutritious diet.
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| What Nutrients do I get out of Dairy? |
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Milk provides a powerful nutrient package of calcium plus eight key nutrients that fuel your body, not just your bones. Milk is one of the best sources of calcium because it also provides vitamin D, which helps the body absorb calcium. Milk is an excellent source of calcium, vitamin D, riboflavin, and phosphorus and a good source of potassium, vitamin A, vitamin B12, niacin and muscle-building protein.
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| Dairy Products, Quality and Safety |
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Thanks to extremely high quality standards and control procedures, Clover milk and other dairy products are among the best, safest quality foods available in South Africa today. Quality control starts on the farm and continues until the Clover product is purchased and used by the consumer.
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| Isn’t dairy fattening? |
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If you eat too much of any foodstuff you can gain weight. However, low fat and fat free dairy products such as low fat and fat free milk, skimmed milk powder, low fat and fat free cottage cheese and yoghurt, low and medium fat cheese as well as low fat flavoured milk are available and good choices and substitutes if you are watching the scale.
There is quite a significant difference in the fat and energy (kilojoules) content between the full cream products and their low fat / fat free equivalents. When excluding dairy from the diet, lots of valuable nutrients are excluded as well, especially calcium. It can be difficult to obtain enough calcium through the diet without the consumption of dairy. Therefore it is not recommended to exclude milk and milk products from the diet. Milk and milk products are nutrient dense foods, providing lots of essential nutrients (such as vitamins and minerals) needed by the body, in high amounts relative to its energy content.
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Fad Diets: Beware. |
The cabbage soup, the low-carbohydrate, and high-protein diet, and other so-called fad diets are not recommended for losing weight. Fad diets usually overemphasize one particular food or type of food, contradicting the guidelines for good nutrition, which recommend eating a variety of foods from the Food Guide Pyramid. These diets may work at first because they cut calories, but they rarely have a permanent effect.
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