{"id":383433,"date":"2026-04-09T15:50:15","date_gmt":"2026-04-09T15:50:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/383433\/"},"modified":"2026-04-09T15:50:15","modified_gmt":"2026-04-09T15:50:15","slug":"eat-less-cheese-healthy-food-agency-tells-the-dutch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/383433\/","title":{"rendered":"Eat less cheese, healthy food agency tells the Dutch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"58\" data-end=\"215\">The Dutch <a href=\"https:\/\/www.voedingscentrum.nl\/nl\/nieuws\/de-vernieuwde-schijf-van-vijf-klaar-voor-de-toekomst.aspx\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">healthy eating agency<\/a> Voedingscentrum published updated recommendations on Thursday, including a shift to more pulses and less cheese and red meat.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"217\" data-end=\"390\">The changes, the centre says, are based on the latest scientific findings and have been translated into \u201coptimal eating patterns based on age, sex, and dietary preferences\u201d.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"392\" data-end=\"657\">While the basic recommendations \u2013 lots of vegetables, fruit, legumes and wholegrain products, and not too much salt, saturated fat and sugar \u2013 remain unchanged, the centre is suggesting people eat more legumes, or pulses, to boost both \u201chuman and planetary health\u201d.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"659\" data-end=\"837\">Adults, the agency says, should now eat no more than 100 grams of red meat a week and 200 grams of other meat and fish \u2013 this was a total of 500 grams in the previous guidelines.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"839\" data-end=\"903\">Cheese consumption should also be cut from 40 to 20 grams a day.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"905\" data-end=\"1115\">Agency behavioural expert Liesbeth Velema says the centre is aware that people eat differently and that \u201cthe food we enjoy, our habits, our culture as well as the unhealthy environment play a big role in this.\u201d<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1117\" data-end=\"1254\">\u201cWe know there is a difference between theory and practice. Our task is to reduce that distance, without ignoring what science tells us.\u201d<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1256\" data-end=\"1481\">At the same time, the centre says, government, the food industry and suppliers have a lot of influence on people\u2019s eating choices and need to take \u201cbig steps\u201d so that safe, healthy and sustainable choices are more accessible.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1565\" data-end=\"1789\">Farm minister Jaimi van Essen said in a reaction to the new recommendations that this autumn he would be working on plans to help consumers eat a more plant-based diet, which could involve price agreements with supermarkets.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1791\" data-end=\"1875\">The new government, for example, has pledged to introduce some form of tax on sugar.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1791\" data-end=\"1875\">The \u201cschijf van vijf\u201d or \u201cwheel of five\u201d was first developed in 1953 and last updated 10 years ago.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Dutch healthy eating agency Voedingscentrum published updated recommendations on Thursday, including a shift to more pulses and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":383434,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[163,85,46,543],"class_list":{"0":"post-383433","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nutrition","8":"tag-health","9":"tag-il","10":"tag-israel","11":"tag-nutrition"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/383433","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=383433"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/383433\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/383434"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=383433"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=383433"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=383433"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}