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The basic steps to good nutrition come from a diet that helps you maintain a healthy weight or lose weight while getting the nutrients your body needs. Find helpful guides to food, nutrition, and diet plans. Includes vegetarian and vegan information and ways to reduce childhood obesity through diet.
Sierras Solution 
Academy of the Sierras works because of the renowned Sierras Solution: the most comprehensive and intensive treatment program for weight loss and long-term weight control. The Sierras Solution is not a diet, but a scientifically-based program that ensures permanent weight loss.
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Structure House
Achieving weight loss goals and keeping the weight off requires you to change the way you think about nutrition, exercise, and the role food plays in your life. This is what makes Structure House so unique. Weight loss programs typically focus only on physical factors related to weight loss. At Structure House you begin to think of yourself as a student of change as you learn to incorporate structure into your daily life and apply new strategies to the world around you.
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Healthy diet decisions: Do you know what to eat?
If you're healthy and want to stay that way, do you know what to eat? Suggestions on what and how much to eat can be confusing, especially when faced with varied and conflicting nutritional advice. Here they outline nutritional recommendations designed to promote health and help prevent disease from the Mayo Clinic. Use these guidelines to plan your healthy diet.
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Healthy Recipes Center
Check out the Mayo Clinic's Healthy Recipes Center. Find a recipe based on the main ingredient, course, meal, and number of servings. Recipes for special diets, like heart-healthy, high-fiber, and low-sodium, are also included.
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Interactive Menu Planner
The interactive menu planner is designed to guide daily food and meal choices based on one day's calorie allowance. It may be used in advance to plan a meal, or at the end of a day to add up total calories, as well as fat, and carbohydrates consumed.
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New Food Pryamid
MyPyramid Plan can help you choose the foods and amounts that are right for you. The Center for Nutrition Policy and Promotion, an organization of the U.S. Department of Agriculture, was established in 1994 to improve the nutrition and well-being of Americans. Toward this goal, the Center focuses its efforts on two primary objectives: 1) Advance and promote dietary guidance for all Americans, and 2) Conduct applied research and analyses in nutrition and consumer economics.
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NutritionData
NutritionData (ND) provides nutrition facts, Calorie counts, and nutrient data for all foods and recipes. ND tells you, in simple terms, what's good and bad about the foods you eat, and helps you select foods that best meet your dietary needs.
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Oprah's Weight Loss Plan
It is the question Oprah is asked all the time. How does she lose weight and keep it off? Plus, one man lost 500 pounds without surgery! And one woman who is 85 pounds lighter makes her TV debut—in a bikini!
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The Virtual Body
Learn about the human brain, the skeleton, the human heart, and the digestive tract with this interactive look into the human body.
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Vegetarian Diet for Exercise and Athletic Training
An increasing number of athletes are adopting vegetarian diets for ecological, economic, religious, health and ethical reasons. Vegetarian diets (except possibly fruitarian and strict macrobiotic diets) can easily meet the nutritional requirements of all types of athletes provided they contain a variety of plant-foods. Vegetarian athletes, like most athletes, may benefit from education on food choices that benefit athletic performance and promote overall health.
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Vitamins and Minerals
You need vitamins and minerals for normal growth, function and health. Not getting enough vitamins or minerals can lead to illness, but getting too much can cause toxic reactions. The best way to get the vitamins and minerals is through a healthy diet based on a variety of foods. But if you have a vitamin or mineral deficiency, a vitamin or mineral supplement may be appropriate.
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We Can!
We Can! (Ways to Enhance Children's Activity & Nutrition) is a national program designed as a one-stop resource for parents and caregivers interested in practical tools to help children 8-13 years old stay at a healthy weight. Tips and fun activities focus on three critical behaviors: improved food choices, increased physical activity and reduced screen time.
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