Make wise food choices

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, Advocate - Making wise food choices would help to prevent obesity, diabetes, high blood pressure, heart disease, high cholesterol and other chronic non-communicable diseases (CNCDs). This is according to the National Nutrition Centre who lays out eight easy to follow guidelines in “Food Based Dietary Guidelines for Barbados.” The first of these tells you that you can “enjoy a variety of food everyday” by encompassing all foods from the six food groups of staples, fruits, vegetables, foods from animals, legumes and nuts and fats and oils.