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Healthy Eating: Changing Your Eating Habits
Eating healthy foods is good for your overall health. With a healthy diet, your body can get the nutrients it needs to stay strong and work well. And you lower your risk for high cholesterol, heart disease, high blood pressure, type 2 diabetes, stroke, cancer, and other health problems.
A healthy diet is important no matter what size you are. You can improve your health by eating foods that are good for you no matter what you weigh.
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Healthy eating: Changing your eating habits
| Author: | Debby Golonka, MPH | Last Updated: February 6, 2009 |
| Medical Review: | Ruth Schneider, MPH, RD - Diet and Nutrition Rhonda O'Brien, MS, RD, CDE - Diabetes Educator | |
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