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Balanced Diet
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What makes a balanced diet? This free IGD factsheet provides information and statistics on the essential nutrients the body needs to be healthy and maintain a sensible body weight.
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Diet and Health
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Information and statistics from IGD on diet and health, consumers' increasingly healthy lifestyles, and how they achieve this through dieting, exercise and healthy living
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Food Labelling - Information Used by Shoppers
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How do shoppers use food labelling? This factsheet shows the background to food labelling, what on-pack information is used during shopping trips, and consumer confidence in labelling.
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Fruit and Vegetables: Five A Day
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Information on the Five-a-Day scheme, including the use of the 5 A DAY logo, what constitutes a portion, and the UK's consumption of fruit & vegetables.
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Functional Foods
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What are functional foods? This factsheet shows the market value, consumer attitudes to functional foods, and the health claims made.
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Glycemic Index (GI)
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What does Glycemic Index (GI) mean? This factsheet includes a definition of GI, examples of low and high GI foods, and how GI is linked to healthy eating.
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Guideline Daily Amounts (GDAs)
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Information and statistics from IGD on Guideline Daily Amounts - the recommended daily consumption of Calories, fat and saturates
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Health, Nutrition and Lifestyle
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Info & statistics including healthy diet and lifestyle definition, the barriers to a eating healthily, and the consequences of an unhealthy diet
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Healthy Snacking
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What is a snack food? This factsheet shows why people snack, the types of food they snack on and what makes a snack healthy.
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Micronutrients
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What are micronutrients? This factsheet includes a definition of micronutrients, describes why they are essential for health and looks at how the food industry can help.
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Nutrition Labelling
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Nutrition information on food packaging information, including how the food industry is dedicated to help consumers make informed choices about the food they eat.
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Obesity
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Information and statistics from IGD on Obesity. What defines obesity? Is obesity increasing? How much does it cost the economy?
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Charles Wilson
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* “IGD plays an important role by addressing issues such as diet, nutrition and health, and sustainability.

This is not an easy task given the scale and complexity of the issues involved, yet IGD succeeds in bringing the industry together and informing all parts of the chain”

Charles Wilson
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* IGD and Nutrition *
* IGD brings the food & grocery industry together to deliver sustainable health and nutritional benefits for consumers. *
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* Download free IGD best practice guides on nutrition topics including portion size, saturated fat, wholegrains and guideline daily amounts (GDAs). *
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