Summary:

  • Balanced eating is a way of eating that promotes good health.
  • It means eating the right balance of different foods to provide the body with all the nutrients it needs.
  • You don’t need to measure and record the amounts of different nutrients you each day in order to balance your eating.
  • Instead, you can use MyPlate, MyPyramid, and food labels to choose the right foods for balanced eating.MyPyramid shows the relative amounts of foods in different food groups you should eat each day.
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