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Eating for your health and energy
Lim Yann Horng, CareLine Advisor/ Nutritionist

With a baby on the way, you need to make sure you’re in good shape! It’s easy for new mums and dads to start neglecting themselves once they have a newborn to care for. But if you’re not keeping your body healthy with the right foods, you’ll find those sleepless nights even harder – especially once you return to work!

Lim Yann Horng, CareLine Advisor/ Nutritionist
1800 265 3188

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The benefits of a healthy diet


As a dad it’s more important than ever you keep yourself fit and healthy. When you’re getting a balanced diet you’ll notice plenty of benefits. Such as:


• Better physical shape

• Healthy skin, hair, eyes and nails

• Lots of energy

• Good concentration, memory and mood

• Healthy immune system

• Better fitness as you get older


A healthy diet also cuts your risk of these illnesses


• Obesity

• Diabetes

• Heart disease

• Several cancers

• High blood pressure

• Strokes

• Cataracts

• Osteoporosis


What should you be eating?


To make sure you’re getting the right mix of nutrients, choose healthy foods from each of the five segments of the food pyramid every day:


• Fruit and vegetables

• Complex Carbohydrate

• Dairy

• Meat and fish

• Fats and sugars

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