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How Much Should I Eat
How Much Should I Eat
Daily Recommendations
Make your calories count. When thinking about calories, it's also
important to consider eating a balanced diet. This means that the
source of your calories should come from protein, carbohydrates, and
fats as well as fruits and vegetables.
Let's say you need 2,500 calories per day and you manage to get
2,500 calories from eating only peanut butter. Even though you're
getting the right number of total calories, your diet is unhealthy
because it's not balanced.
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Daily Recommendations
Healthy diets follow the food guide recommendations from
ChooseMyPlate.gov.
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Fruit: Make half of your plate fruits and veggies at each meal:
Vegetables: Make half of your plate fruits and veggies at each meal:
Grains: Make at least half of your grains whole grains every day:
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Understanding Portion Sizes
What counts as an appropriate portion size? This can be confusing,
partly because restaurants often serve huge portions that could feed
two people instead of just one. These huge portion sizes leave us
with a skewed perspective of how much food we should be eating.
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Tips for Eating Appropriate Portion Sizes
The best way to determine how big of a portion you should eat is to
listen to your body and the hunger signals it sends you.
Eat when you’re hungry and stop when you feel full,
even if there's still food on your plate. Don't feel the
need to clean your plate just because there’s still food
on it.
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Author:
Sonja Swenson,
public health education intern
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