The Benefits
Eating a healthy diet can help keep your body strong and fit. It feels good to know you are making healthy choices that can change your life.
A healthy diet can help protect you from:
- Heart disease
- Bone loss
- Type 2 diabetes
- High blood pressure
- Some cancers such as colorectal cancer
What if I am Overweight?
If you eat foods high in calories, sugar, and fat and don't get enough exercise, you could become overweight
or obese. That means you have too much body fat. To stay a healthy weight, you need to balance the calories you eat with the calories you use up. Use this Body Mass Index (BMI) calculator
to learn if you are at a healthy weight.
If you are overweight or obese, losing just 10 pounds may lower your risk of:
- Heart disease
- Type 2 diabetes
- High blood pressure
