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Commensurate with their age, sex, type of activity and personal tastes, proper nutrition is the one that meets their energy requirements by providing all the principles nutrients. No food can wholly satisfy the nutritional needs, then the easiest way to ensure the body a good supply of nutrients it is to vary the food selection as much as possible by combining them properly, for example by combining vegetables to protein foods, or starchy to lipids. From a practical point of view, a simple way to select the food to eat is to use food groups. Scientists have identified six groups: 1. meat, fish and eggs; 2. milk and dairy; 3. cereal derivatives; 4. dried legumes; 5. vegetable fats and oils; 6. vegetables and fruit. A diet can be defined as “proper” if in the daily diet each group is represented by at least one portion of the foods that are part of it.