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According to the Food Standards Agency having a healthy balanced diet means you should:
- Eat plenty of fruit and vegetables, at least 5 portions of a variety every day.
- Base your meals on starchy foods, such as potatoes, brown rice and wholemeal bread.
- Have just moderate amounts of meat, fish and other good sources of protein.
- Have some dairy foods such as cheese, milk and yoghurt - choose lower fat options whenever you can.
- Watch how much salt you're eating - the most anyone over the age of 11 should be having is 6g a day (or 2.5g sodium).
- Watch out for high fat or high sugar snacks and drinks, and don't have them too often.
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