Use the Healthy Eating Plate as a guide for creating healthy, balanced meals—whether served on a plate or packed in a lunch box.
Put a copy on your refrigerator to serve as a daily reminder! The main message of the Healthy Eating Plate is to focus on diet quality.

Energy is another word for “calories.” Your energy balance is the balance of calories consumed through eating and drinking compared to calories burned through physical activity. What you eat and drink is ENERGY IN. What you burn through physical activity is ENERGY OUT. The same amount of ENERGY IN (calories consumed) and ENERGY OUT (calories burned) over time = weight stays the same
More IN than OUT over time = weight gain
More OUT than IN over time = weight loss

Being physically active may help reduce the risk
of chronic diseases that could further weaken
your immune system, including cardiovascular disease, diabetes and obesity.

The combination of excess body weight,
alcohol intake, poor diet and physical inactivity
accounted for the highest proportion of all
cancer cases in women and second only
to tobacco smoking in men.

While some factors that affect happiness are out of our control, there are always actions we can take to amp up our good vibes. Consider trying a few of these — or all of them! — and you’re guaranteed to give each day a little boost.