Tips for Maintaining a Healthy Diet During Covid-19 Self-Quarantine

Having a healthy diet is very important, particularly during the COVID-19 pandemic when many of us are staying at home and doing less. With a little planning, families can sustain healthy eating habits during this period of confinement.

Here’s what you need to know to keep healthy while in quarantine:

Eat more fruits and vegetables

Different color fruits and vegetables provide different combinations of vitamins, minerals and phytochemicals that our body needs

Choose whole grains over refined grains

Whole grains provide an important source of carbohydrates which generates energy and helps us feel fuller for longer periods

Control portion sizes

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Use “handy” tricks to understand what the right portion looks like to help us stay in energy balance and avoid under- or overeating. One fistful = 1 portion!

Limit foods high in fat, sugar or salt

As these foods provide little nutritional benefit, they are not needed for a healthy diet and should only be enjoyed in small amounts and eaten occasionally

Replace saturated fats with unsaturated fats

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Reducing intake of foods such as fatty meats, high fat dairy products and tropical oils like coconut oil and adding foods such as nuts, oily fish and plant oils such as olive and rapeseed oil