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Eat Smart: The Benefits

Health Benefits

The food choices you make each day will affect how you feel today and in the future. Eating a healthy diet is critical to a healthy lifestyle and can help protect you from:

  • Heart disease
  • Bone loss
  • Type 2 diabetes
  • High blood pressure
  • Some cancers such as colorectal cancer

Overweight and Obesity

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.

If you are overweight or obese, losing just 10 pounds may lower your risk of:

  • Heart disease
  • Type 2 diabetes
  • High blood pressure

To stay at 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 find out if you are at a healthy weight.

Consider This: If you eat 100 more fod calories a day than you burn, you'll gain about 1 pound a month. that's about 10 pounds a year. the bottom line is that to lose weight, it's important to reduce calories and increase physical activity.

Want more information?

Learn how eating healthy relates to heart disease; overweight and obesity; and colorectal cancer.

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