Nutrition - recommendations from the Directorate of Health

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Educational and educational materials on nutrition and diet for young people, including:

All significant nutritional information is available at Heilsuvera.is (Icelandic)

Official dietary recommendations

Adolescents and young people must eat a reasonable amount of varied and healthy food regularly. During adolescence, independence in food choice becomes a significant issue. Parents of teenagers need to support healthy eating habits. It is good to develop a healthy lifestyle during adolescence as it increases the likelihood of a healthier life in adulthood.

Dietary recommendations (Icelandic) are for adults and children from the age of 2; there, you can find a wide range of information and advice on healthy food. The recommendations emphasise the diet as a whole rather than individual nutrients, that people eat various foods in reasonable amounts, have regular meals, and enjoy eating. There are good suggestions on how to follow the recommendations daily. Eating healthy doesn't have to be complicated.

The Office's website also contains information on:

• Recommended daily doses of vitamins and minerals (Icelandic)

• Vitamin D

• Vegetarian diet

• Vegan diet

Health-promoting upper secondary school

The health-promoting upper secondary school supports schools in systematic health-promoting activities. This includes creating a school environment that promotes pupils' and staff's mental, physical, and social health and well-being in cooperation with families and the local community. Ideally, primary and upper secondary schools should offer a healthy diet following the recommendations of the Directorate of Health. Healthy choice should be facilitated (accessibility, price, availability) by increasing access to healthy food and restricting unhealthy food supply.

In particular, access to vegetables, fruit, whole grain products, and cold drinking water should be improved, and energy drinks, soft drinks, candy, and snacks should not be sold within health-promoting schools.