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King County Healthy Vending Guidelines (PDF)
The King County Healthy Vending Guidelines provide recommendations for the nutritional quality of food and beverages in vending machines to help make the healthy and easy choice. |
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2010 Dietary Guidelines for Americans
Take action on the Dietary Guidelines by making changes in 3 major areas. |
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Steps to a Healthy Diet
The 2010 USDA Dietary Guidelines for Americans include major messages including controlling caloric intake, increasing physical activity and safe food handling. |
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Make half your plate fruits and vegetables
Encouraging eating a colorful variety of fruits and vegetables every day. |
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Understanding the USDA MyPlate
MyPlate serves as a reminder to help consumers make healthier food choices by thinking about building a healthy plate at meal times while emphasizing the fruit, vegetable, grains, protein and dairy food groups. |
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Healthy eating for kids
Children grow at different rates during their early years so feeding recommendations vary by age and stage of development. Feeding children is a good way to develop trust and a sense of security. |
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Sugar-loaded beverages
Public Health – Seattle & King County is warning people that drinking too many sugar-loaded drinks causes obesity and other health problems. |
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Healthy food choices for meetings
The strong relationship between diet and health and the increasing rates of overweight and obesity make supporting healthy food choices at work part of our commitment to health. These guidelines are intended to assist in making healthy food and beverage choices for meetings, trainings, and events. |
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Facts about the Nutrition Facts Label: What the numbers mean to you
The Nutrition Facts label helps you to understand if the food has "a lot" or "a little" of the most important nutrients based on your dietary goals. |
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Nutrition labeling and trans fat in King County
Learn about the King County regulation requiring all food establishments to remove artificial trans fat from the cooking process and menu labeling requirements for chain restaurants. |
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How can I make healthy food choices in spite of limited money?
Tips to stretch your food dollars through careful planning and taking a few shortcuts without having to give up on healthy eating. |
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What are some tips for easy-to-fix and healthy meals?
Tips on getting in the habit of when to prepare ingredients ahead of time and how you can eat twice from a recipe. |
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How can I make healthy choices if I don't cook?
Modern grocery stores allow many healthy choices for those who don't like to cook or who lack cooking skills or equipment though with a price -- whether it is money, time or quality of the food. |
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How can I make healthy choices if I don't eat meat?
Vegetarian or 'plant-based' diets can be a very healthy eating style. All the rules still apply, however, including practicing variety, balance and moderation. |
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School physical activity and nutrition resources
Schools can play an important role in providing healthy environments that help students establish healthy eating and exercise habits that will follow them throughout their lives. |
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Free recipes by Public Health - Seattle & King County
Access hundreds of recipes produced by our Nutrition Team including some of your favorites as well as some new ones. |
