Nutritious Diets

Choose My Plate Dietary Guidelines Goodbye Food Pyramid, hello Choose My Plate! The Choose My Plate dietary guidelines are the latest tool used to measure ho...

Healthy U.S.-Style Eating Pattern at the 2,000-Calorie Level, With Daily or Weekly Amounts From Food Groups, Subgroups, and Components

ChooseMyPlate.gov provides practical information to individuals, health professionals, nutrition educators, and the food industry to help consumers build healthier diets with resources and tools for dietary assessment, nutrition education, and other user-friendly nutrition information.

Get to know the basics of the Nutrition Facts Panel, and understand the parts and pieces, from serving size, total calories and fat to percent of Daily Values.

Food labels tell you the nutritional content of a food item. You can compare two different items by using the Nutrition Facts label to choose the healthier option. 

Essential nutrients are compounds the body can’t make on its own, or in enough quantity. These nutrients must come from food, and they’re vital for disease prevention, growth, and good health. We’ll take a look at the main groups of essential micronutrients and macronutrients and explain why your body needs them.

Essential nutrients are those that your body cannot make, which means you need to get them from food. Poor food quality, toxins, and bad diets contribute to vitamin deficiencies and many individiuals do not intake the essential nutrients vital for life. What can you do to improve your nutrition?

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