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Weight Management Center: Nutrition
Managing Weight With Nutrition
Teaching Your Kids
to Choose Good Foods
The struggle to develop good eating habits among toddlers, preschoolers and older children seems never-ending. But encouraging children to eat right doesn't require battle, just some common sense.
Take the Diet Quiz:
Exploding Myths in Weight Loss
Learn more about diets and weight loss by taking this quiz, based on information from the Federal Trade Commission and National Institutes of Health.
How to Mix
Carbs, Fats, Proteins in Your Diet
Your diet needs Fats for energy, Proteins for body strength and Carbs for making your organs function efficiently. Strive for this balance.
Low-Fat Eating
When you think of fat, you probably think of greasy things like salad dressing and butter. But there's fat in almost all foods.
Nutritionists:
Your Portions Are Out of Control
So, you watch what you eat -- but do you really pay attention?
Cutting Calories and Fat
When Dining Out
Whether you're trying to lose excess pounds or maintain a healthy weight, eating out in restaurants can sabotage your goals.
Fast Tips for Cutting Fast Food,
Plus, Food Guide Pyramid
for Youngsters
You're as likely to keep children from eating fast food as you are to get them to stop playing computer games. Fast food is part of Americans' lifestyle.
Why Diets Don’t Work
Research clearly shows that most diets don’t work.
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More than 60 percent of young people eat too much fat, the surgeon general says. Fewer than 20 percent eat the recommended five or more daily servings of fruit and vegetables.
Nearly a third of U.S. children eat fast food on any given day, according to a study in Pediatrics.
Over 10 years, drinking one extra serving of soda or sugar-sweetened juice each day would result in a gain of 110 pounds, the National Institute for Health Care Management says.
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Nutrition Charts
Whether it's fats, fish or fruits, check out these Nutrition Charts on just about everything you eat and drink. From the USDA.
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