"hábitos saludables" in English

This is because it develops healthy eating habits and thus improves the general health of society.

This is not just a question of consuming fruit but of building healthy and balanced nutritional habits.

The Commission welcomes this initiative, as it can help to encourage healthy eating habits throughout the EU.

It is therefore essential to adopt healthier lifestyles and to adopt public policies that help make living conditions safer.

Programmes promoting the principles of healthy eating and physical activity should also be directed at children and young people.

All this is particularly important considering, as you said, the Commission's interest in promoting healthy diets and lifestyles for Europeans.

One of the ways of addressing the problem is through promoting healthy eating habits, and the Mediterranean diet certainly falls into this category.

in writing. - I am happy to support the scheme to provide school children with fruit in order to encourage healthier eating habits in the young.

Firstly, now that there are an increasing number of obese children in Europe, we as a society will need to invest more in teaching healthy eating habits.

Counselling and creating good and balanced eating habits would contribute more to the development of a healthy population than this distribution scheme alone.

We therefore urgently need to develop effective measures for combating this epidemic, not least by promoting healthy eating habits in the early years of life.

Ladies and gentlemen, based on the strategy set out in the White Paper, the Commission supports all proposals and all processes which encourage healthy eating habits.