Dietary Guidelines
By Jada Turner
Dietary Guidelines
Dietary Guidelines provide advice to help people live longer, healthier lives. These science- based guidelines about healthful eating and physical activity.
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By staying in a healthy weight range. To enough nutrients, eat a variety of nutrient dense food.
Nutrient dense food is a food that provides high amounts of vitamins and minerals for relatively few calories.
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A risk factor is a condition that increases your chances of developing a problem. Health problems that are related to too much fat is diabetes , heart disease. An underweight person do not have much body fat as an energy reserve. To lose weight you can by being physically active and eat healthier.
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Control your weight and it increases your endurance and flexibility. A teen should get 60 minutes of physical activity a day. Get involved in a team or use stairs instead of elevator.
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Theses foods are nutrient rich, cholesterol free, and naturally low in fats and calories.
Also, they protect against heart disease and cancer. Eat fruit instead of desserts, make whole-grain products the star of your meals, and drink yogurt smoothies for snacks.
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Fats that raises cholesterol are saturated and trans fat. You can develop heart disease from a high fat-diet. Keep saturated fats less than 10 percent in your calories.
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Fruit and milk have natural sugar. Candy and soft drinks have added sugars. You can get tooth decay.
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Sodium helps body fluids. High blood pressure, heart attack and strokes are linked to too much sodium. Potassium helps counteracts sodium's effects on high blood pressure.
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Drinking can affect your judgement, increases the chances of accidents, and it does not have nutrients.
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If the food is not handled with safety it can cause food-born illnesses