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Welcome to the latest JA Fitness newsletter. If this is your first experience, the idea is to provide you with information about health and fitness. If you choose to follow the advise, that’s great. If you ignore it but come back to it another time, that’s fine too. The old copies of my newsletter will be stored on my website, so you can always find out information when it is needed.

This month I would like to give you some idea of portion sizes, I think you might be surprised.

The daily healthy eating portions for an average 10 stone person are:

Bread/cereal/rice/pasta/potatoes 6-7
Vegetables 3-4
Fruit 2-3
Meat/poultry/fish/eggs 2
Milk/yoghurt/cheese 2
Fats/oils/sweets small

Examples of portion sizes:

Bread/cereal/rice/pasta/potatoes
1 Weetabix 1 egg sized potato
2 tbsp cooked rice, pasta, noodles 1 medium slice of bread
2 tbsp muesli 1 bagel
3 tbsp cereal flakes  
Fruit/vegetables  
2 tbsp tinned fruit in natural juice Small bowl of salad
1 medium carrot, tomato… 2 tbsp vegetables
6 strawberries 1 small glass fruit juice
1 medium apple, pear, peach…  
Meat /fish/poultry/eggs 50-100g lean meat, poultry, oily fish
100-150g white fish 1 medium egg
Dairy/yoghurt 1/3 pint milk
25g hard cheese (matchbox size) 130g pot yoghurt/fromage frais
Small pot cottage cheese  

As I have given you lots of pearls of wisdom, this will be my last newsletter. I hope you have found the information useful. If there are any new developments, either in business or exercise products I will let you know.

Please feel free to contact me if you need any advice, or just have some juicy gossip!

I hope you enjoy this information and that it helps to keep you fit, healthy and happy.

Good luck

Jane Ardley
September 2005