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Use this food diary to reflect on your eating habits and identify where you can make healthier choices.
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Try the Reflect-Replace-Reinforce approach to change your eating habits for good.
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Find healthy recipes for omelets, stews, pizzas and more. Plus, view nutrition tips for people with diabetes.
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Printable fact sheets for living with and managing diabetes.
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Learn why women should not drink alcohol if they are pregnant.
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This collection of resources provides parents and caregivers, health care providers, and partners with tools and information to help children and teens maintain a healthy weight and prevent obesity.
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Is there an activity you want to know more about? Not sure of how to play or what gear you’ll need? Look no further — it’s all right here!
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Find information and strategies on feeding healthy foods and drinks to infants and toddlers, from birth to 24 months of age. Resources include:
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This calculator provides Body Mass Index (BMI) and the corresponding BMI-for-age percentile on a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) BMI-for-age growth chart. Use this calculator for children and teens, aged 2 through 19 years old.
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Read about how parents or guardians can help prevent childhood overweight and obesity.
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About 9 in 10 US children eat more sodium than recommended. Read about how parents and caregivers can help.
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More than 40% of the sodium we eat each day comes from only 10 types of food. Many people are surprised to learn which foods are on the list because the foods do not always taste salty.
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Find information on sodium and food sources, how to reduce sodium, and sodium reduction resources for everyone.
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A healthy lifestyle involves many choices. Among them, choosing a balanced diet or healthy eating plan. So how do you choose a healthy eating plan? Read more.
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Here are some examples of ways to cut calories for your meals, snacks, and even beverages.
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Select the country you’re in and answer a few simple questions about what you’re thinking about eating or drinking, and Can I Eat This? will tell you whether it’s likely to be safe.
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Download the free Dining Decisions game to your iPad, iPhone, or Android device and see how healthy you can make your food plate!
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When it comes to weight loss, there's no lack of fad diets promising fast results. But such diets limit your nutritional intake, can be unhealthy, and tend to fail in the long run.
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Learn what diabetes is and how it impacts the body.
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Get answers to frequently asked questions about diabetes and pregnancy.
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Learn why folic acid intake is especially important for pregnant women or women of child-bearing age.
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Download the free Dining Decisions game to your iPad, iPhone, or Android device and see how healthy you can make your food plate!
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If you're thinking, "How can I meet the guidelines each week?" don't worry. You'll be surprised by the variety of activities you have to choose from.
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Learn about obesity and strategies for combatting it in yourself, your family, and your community.
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Find links to Body Mass Index (BMI) calculators for both adults and children, and links to information on interpreting the results.