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Eating Healthier

  1. Calculating Calories and Fat Grams

    Here's a formula to help you figure out how many calories and fat grams you need each day to maintain your current weight.

  2. Components of Food
  3. Cook for a Healthy Heart

    Part of eating a heart-healthy diet means fixing foods using low-sodium, low-fat, and low-cholesterol methods.

  4. Could a Nutrition Expert Help You?
  5. Determining Your Body Mass Index
  6. Diet and Cardiovascular Disease
  7. How to Make Heart-Healthy Food Choices

    Maintaining a healthy diet is one of the best weapons for fighting cardiovascular disease and other heart conditions.

  8. Managing Hypertension with the DASH Diet
  9. Managing Prehypertension Without Drugs
  10. Nutrition's Role in Disease Prevention

    Evidence is mounting that a healthful diet can help protect you from some diseases. What you eat -- or don't eat -- may help prevent heart disease, cancer, osteoporosis and type 2 diabetes.

  11. Omega-3 Fatty Acids and Coronary Heart Disease

    Omega-3s are a beneficial and essential form of fat, one that your body needs but can't make.

  12. Shake the Salt Habit

    Americans consume two to three times more salt or sodium than is healthy.

  13. Simple Ways to Improve Your Diet

    Eating healthy can reduce your risk of illness and lengthen your life. Eating a balanced, low-fat, low-cholesterol diet reduces your risk of heart disease, certain cancers, diabetes, stroke and other diseases. Follow these tips to help improve your diet.

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