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SILL AND DAILY DIETARY BALANCE

Nutrition is at the centre of SILL group's concerns. Through our different expertise we intervene on a large number of products consumed daily by each and every one of us: butter, soup, fruit juice, ready meals, etc. We must therefore do our utmost to make this daily food, whether alone or associated with other dishes, models of balance and pleasure!

How can you obtain a successful balance in your daily diet?

To obtain a successful balance in your daily diet, it is best to eat well and take care of your health, following a few simple rules:

• Organize your day around 3 meals (breakfast, lunch, dinner) and a light snack if possible. This will provide your body with regularity and is a first step in achieving a dietary balance.
• Take a breakfast every morning. It is the best way to begin the day. Full, it will provide the energy you need to last through the morning.
• Avoid eating snacks. This leaves the door wide open to sweet and fatty foods. So, allow yourself a full break (starchy food, fruit and a dairy product) if you are hungry rather than giving way during the day!
• Eat a little of everything in the right quantities. This is the best way to satisfy your appetite and cover your nutritional needs.
• Take at least some physical exercise. The equivalent of 30 minutes of quick walking a day is ideal to stay in form and keep you healthy.

Adapt your food intake to your needs

Our daily energy requirements vary according to sex, age, physical activity and physiological condition. We should, therefore, adapt our food intake to these needs:

Men: 2 400 Kcal
Active men: 2 700 Kcal
Great physical activity: 3 080 Kcal

Women: 1 900 Kcal
Active women: 2 200 Kcal
Great physical activity: 2 400 Kcal

Source: Recommended Nutritional Intake, 2001

Good distribution of proteins, lipids and carbohydrates

Our food meets the body’s energy requirements through the intake of a part of the calorie nutrients: proteins, lipids and carbohydrates, and moreover non-calorie nutrients: minerals, trace elements and vitamins.

A balanced diet is a varied diet respecting our elementary needs and providing the energy and daily nutrients necessary to keep our bodies working properly.
The secret of a balanced diet lies in the search for varied food in which the required nutritive elements are spread out in a balanced manner. We should keep it in mind that a diet cannot be balanced on the basis of one meal or one day, but on several days or even weeks!

Programme National Nutrition Santé (PNNS) (National Nutrition & Health Programme)

The PNNS is a program developed by the Minister for Health, aiming to improve the population’s condition of health by acting on nutrition. It gives priority to public health nutritional objectives for the general population (increase in the consumption of complex carbohydrates, dairy products, fruit and vegetables, etc.) and specific nutritional objectives concerning particular groups (reduce iron deficiency in pregnant women, improve the calcium level in adolescents, etc.).

The PNNS is a benchmark and provides consumer indicators on the food to be given preference to and those to be reduced among those containing the most carbohydrate (vegetables, fruits, starchy foods, sweet products), proteins (meat, fish, eggs, dairy products, etc.) or lipids (oil, butter, cheese, etc.).

The programme, and in particular its second section (PNNS2, 2006-2010), mobilizes all the key nutrition players in France – industrials, institutional catering, commercial restaurant chains, etc. – and encourages them to improve the overall quality of the food on offer, at the same time ensuring that it remains affordable by everyone.