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Creating a Healthy Diet Does it mean to eat all vegetables?
Does it mean to eat only meat? No.
A healthy diet is a balanced diet.
This is what MyPlate
demonstrates. A balanced diet
means getting the right amounts of
nutrients.
MyPlate guidelines are
recommendations from the United
States Department of Agriculture
(USDA). Since 1958 the USDA has
recommended a balanced diet in
the form of the food pyramid.
However, the pyramid proved to be
too complicated for most
Americans to efficiently use to
create diets. In response, the
USDA simplified its
recommendations in 2011 into the
MyPlate format.
The specific advice of the USDA is:
1. Balance calorie intake.
Figure 12 New and old USDA Enjoy your food, but eat less.
dietary recommendation Avoid oversized portions.
schemes. The simpler MyPlate has 2. Eat certain foods. Make
recently replaced the long-
standing, complicated food half your plate fruit and
vegetables. Make at least
pyramid scheme of representing a half your grains whole grains.
balanced diet.
Switch to fat-free or low fat
We already know what a diet is— (1%) milk.
the sum of food and drink 3. Eat certain foods in
consumed. Now, what does it moderation. Compare
mean to have a healthy diet? sodium in foods like sodium,
bread, and frozen meals—
and choose the foods with
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