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Date Published: 28/10/2024
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.56283/1859-0381/773
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Vol. 20 No. 5 (2024)
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SCIENTIFIC INFORMATION
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TRAN TD, HOANG TDN, HOANG TTN, TRAN PT, LE DT, PHAN KH, VU VT, LE TH, PHAM QA, NGUYEN VD, DANG TDD, PHUNG NH. DISCUSSION ON HEALTH FOOD AND HEALTHY DIET TERMS. Tạp chí Dinh dưỡng và Thực phẩm. 2024;20(5):1-8. doi:10.56283/1859-0381/773

DISCUSSION ON HEALTH FOOD AND HEALTHY DIET TERMS

Thanh Duong TRAN1, Thi Duc Ngan HOANG1,, Thi Thao Nghien HOANG2, Phuong Thao TRAN1, Danh Tuyen LE1, Kim Hue PHAN3, Van Tan VU1, Thi Hiep LE1, Quynh Anh PHAM1, Viet Dung NGUYEN1, Thi Doan Du DANG1, Ngoc Hai PHUNG4
1 National Institute of Nutrition, Vietnam
2 University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Hanoi National University
3 Can Tho University of Medicine and Pharmacy
4 Griffith University, Queensland, Australia

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Abstract

Nowadays, the role of healthy diet in disease prevention and treatment has been widely recognized. The classification of food as “healthy”, “good for health” or “unhealthy” is based on the nature of the food, the nutritional composition of the food, the frequency of consumption, the way of consuming the food. Therefore, whether a dish is good or not, whether a food is healthy or not depends not only on the type of food consumed, but also on how we prepare it, how we eat it, and how often we consume these foods every day. There are many different views on defining and classifying a diet as healthy or less healthy. Classification of diets based on food is still predominant. There are several criteria to classify diet such as local and regional characteristics, affordability and psychological factors on food consumption, but the impact of each of these factors or the combination of these factors still varies across different populations. This makes it challenging for scientists to distinguish between healthy and unhealthy foods and further studies are needed to provide more evidence for healthy food and diet recommendations

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food, meal, healthy, diet, food classification

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