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F US ON WE NE : A BALANCED PLATE
You probably hear about eating a balanced diet • Ensuring you have at least three food
all the time. But what does that actually mean? groups to get the necessary nutrients.
A balanced diet means having sensible portions A balanced diet can look di erent for each

from all food groups — fruits, vegetables, person and culture. It enables you to be
grains, proteins, and dairy/dairy alternatives — mindful and focus on mainly consuming
to meet your nutritional needs adequately. The nutrient-dense foods. While you do not
USDA recommends building a balanced plate need to avoid any foods or beverages, ice
to make half of your meal fruits and vegetables, cream, fried foods, candy, and sodas are
a quarter grains, and the other quarter lean better consumed occasionally.
proteins. The balanced plate framework allows
for customization — you choose what foods to Source:
eat from each food group. https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/

Other considerations when developing a nutritionsource/healthy-eating-plate/
nutritionally balanced diet include: https://www.healthline.com/health/balanced-
• Limiting saturated fats. diet

• Varying the types of fruits and vegetables
you eat.

On The Rise: FOOD PODCASTS

If you’re looking for your next podcast content, you can get the stories and recipes
to devour, consider an audio treat focused published in the periodical.
on food. There’s a podcast for every taste There are even podcasts aimed at the younger
and topic.
set. For example, Time for Lunch audio
Do you want to hear your favorite chef talk podcast gets comments and questions from
about the culinary arts? You’re in luck because children for its lessons about eating, cooking,
many celebrity chefs, including Marcus and the history of di erent foods. America’s

Samuelsson, David Chang, Samin Nostrat, Test Kitchen Kids’ Mystery Recipe is a video
and Richard Blais, broadcast their thoughts podcast that starts with a guessing game about
on the restaurant industry, food news, kitchen an unknown food and morphs into creative
tips and tricks, and even current events. lessons and games about the item.
Food Network fans can keep up with Ina There are as many podcast styles as there are
Garten, Bobby Flay, Marc Murphy, and Je hosts. Sample a few to see what appeals to you.
Mauro on their podcasts. In addition, Food
Network Obsessed podcast pulls back the Source:
curtain on your favorite shows and dishes on https://www.audible.com/blog/article-best-
the latest culinary trends. foodie-podcasts
https://www.popsugar.com/food/
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