Eat Smart - Get
Active
Eating more fruits
and vegetables and engaging in more physical
activity represent two very simple but very powerful
ways to both promote health and help to prevent
chronic disease.
A perfect way to
begin to Eat Smart and Get Active is to use
the
MyPyramid Plan,
and the
MyPyramid Tracker to
develop your own personalized eating and physical
activity plan. MyPyramid can help you determine how
many fruits and vegetables and how much physical
activity you need to enhance your own overall health
and well-being.
Eat Smart
Healthy and delicious
recipes make it very easy to get healthy and to stay
healthy. Try some of these delicious recipes
for better health.
Please note that all the recipe links are either PDFs
or Web pages and are organized below as such.
Get Active
A key
to getting healthy and staying healthy is physical
activity. The recommendations are to increase daily
physical activity to a minimum of 30 minutes for
adults and 60 minutes for children.
There are numerous organizations dedicated to
providing adults and children with information and
tools that help to make physical activity a part of
everyday life. A few of these organizations are as
follows:
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