Healthy Eating - We Do Know

Eating a healthy diet full of nutrients can help you stay at a healthy weight and may help protect you from certain diseases. A nutrient is anything in food that:

Provides energy
Helps your body “burn” another nutrient to provide energy
Helps build or repair tissue

Making healthy choices can sometimes be hard, but there are easy changes you can make to eat better. To help prevent heart disease, stroke, and perhaps other diseases, you should eat mainly:

Fruits and vegetables
Grains (at least half of your grains should be whole grains, such as whole-wheat, oatmeal, and brown rice)
Fat-free or low-fat versions of milk, cheese, yogurt, and other milk products
Fish, skinless poultry, lean red meats, beans, eggs, and nuts
Polyunsaturated and monounsaturated fats (some foods that have these “good” fats include salmon, avocados, olives, walnuts, and olive oil)