Diet & Nutrition
Food and beverages provide the energy and nutrients you need to improve health, manage disease, and reduce the risk of disease.
Find resources on nutrition to help you pay attention to what, when, how often, why, and how much you eat and drink, as well as, help manage health conditions such as diabetes, obesity, kidney disease, and others.
Featured Topics
You can make changes to slow down kidney disease. See tips for diet and lifestyle changes
General Nutrition
Diabetes
Digestive Diseases
Diet & Nutrition Topics
- About Food Portions
- Aim for a Healthy Weight
- Being Healthy is a Big Deal! Tips for Families (PDF, 1.47 MB)
- Binge Eating Disorder
- Celebrate the Beauty of Youth
- Celiac Disease
- DASH Eating Plan
- Diet for Kidney Stone Prevention
- Dietary Guidelines
- Dieting and Gallstones
- Food Allergies (PDF, 1.74 MB)
- Fruits and Veggies - More Matters
- Health Risks of Being Overweight
- Healthy Eating and Physical Activity Tips (PDF, 1.69 MB)
- Healthy Habits for Summer
- Healthy Meals and Snacks for Teens
- Healthy Recipes from NHLBI
- Helping Your Child: Tips for Parents
- Keeping Active and Healthy Eating for Men
- Keeping Active and Eating Right for the Whole Family
- Lactose Intolerance
- Nutrition Assistance Program from the USDA
- Nutrition Tips from ChooseMyPlate.gov
- Nutritional Needs During Pregnancy
- Smart Food Choices for Healthy Aging
- Trans Fat: What You Need To Know
Weight-control Information Network (WIN)
- Sisters Together - Community-based program for African American women and their families
- Be a Health Champion - Healthy eating and physical activity information packet
- Help Reduce Childhood Obesity - Infographic to help you improve your child's health
Healthy Moments Radio
Listen to health tips from Dr. Rodgers in his weekly 1-minute episodes.
- Don’t Let the Holidays Weigh You Down
- Eating Healthy and Sticking to My Budget
- Help Your Children: Make Fitness Fun
- Eating and Nutrition: Tips for K-12 Students
Clinical Trials
Research Discoveries & News
- Tracking both the what and the when of the human diet
- Healthy diet may reduce high blood pressure risk after gestational diabetes, NIH study suggests
- Nutrition Roadmap Aims to Advance Research to Provide More Individualized Advice
- Christopher J. Lynch to direct Office of Nutrition Research
- HHS and USDA Release New Dietary Guidelines to Encourage Healthy Eating Patterns to Prevent Chronic Diseases
- Brain stimulation limits calories consumed in adults with obesity
- NIH researchers link single gene variation to obesity