Free Healthy Eating Plan

Free Healthy Eating Plan

Most of us want to live longer and feel better while we're here. Although you can’t control all of the factors that affect your ability to do that, you do get to decide what you put in your mouth, and diet can have a huge affect on your ability to live well.

Simple is better

A basic principle of healthy eating is that simple, unadorned foods are far better for you than more richly appointed dishes and sparkling packaged foods.

Common sense plan

In general, if you think a food is bad for you—lots of fat, lots of sugar, over-processed or devoid of nutrition, it probably is. If you think it’s good for you—fresh, colorful, lightly cooked, high in fiber, real food—it most likely is.

In case you need a little help, here is a free healthy eating plan that is recommended by the USDA for someone on a 2,000-calorie diet, which encompasses many adults. These amounts can be divided up into meals and snacks throughout the day.

Click here for a printable copy of this free healthy eating plan list.

More or Less

If you are an active person, and need more than 2,000 calories, you can use this healthy eating plan as a basis and just add some servings across the board to each group. Conversely, if you need fewer calories because you are sedentary, you can limit the discretionary calories and be sure to choose low-fat versions of dairy products and meat.

A few more tips

Of course, there are other recommendations that would enhance this healthy eating plan, such as choosing fresh fruits and vegetables, whole grains, and good quality fats, but this is the basic structure of a healthy diet.

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