Food and Health, MyPlate



We are working on our Portion Control DVD and wanted to present a few of the photos taken from the snacking section. We measured 150 calories of chips, cheese puffs and mini cookies and then compared those with 150 calories of carrots, grapes and berries. It is amazing at how much MORE you get to ... Snacking Lesson and Sneak Preview to New Portion Control DVD
 
Cooking, MyPlate

Here is a fun steak dinner - but without the steak! It was made in 20 minutes flat - and all we had to do was cut the potato. On the plate: steak oven fries, steak roasted mushrooms, salmon steak and steamed green beans. Heat oven to 450 degrees....
 
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Foodandhealth.com has partnered with the USDA to help get MyPyramid's critical nutrition guidelines into the hands of families, teachers and health educators to help individuals shop and stock their kitchen with MyPyramid. Cooking and meal planning is easy when you have the right ingredients on hand with recipes, shopping...
 
Prevention, MyPlate

Reducing salt intake by a mere 1200mg/day (or by less than 1/3) would save as many lives over the next 10 years as if all American smokers quit tomorrow for good.
 
Food and Health, MyPlate

For 100 calories of carrots, apples, grapes, oranges, celery, berries and a banana you get to eat a larger portion than with cookies.
 
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We just completed our Portion Control Video DVD and we had a lot of fun in the process and wanted to share our story and photos. We learned a lot about the calories in large portions of every day food. Here is what we learned: Packages of movie snacks,...