Healthy Eating: Changing Your Eating Habits

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Introduction

The food you eat can affect your health and your risk for certain diseases. To eat healthier food, you may need to change some of your daily habits. You also may need to change some things in your environment. Your environment includes everything around you, like your home or the place you work.

You don't need to make huge changes to eat healthier. And you don't have to change your habits all at the same time. It's best to set small goals and change your habits a little bit at a time. Over time, small changes can make a big difference in your health.

This information will help you make useful changes for healthy eating.

Key points

• Changing your eating habits and your environment can help you eat healthier foods.
• A healthy diet is good for your overall health. It also can help you reach a healthy weight and stay there.
• To improve your eating habits, it's best to make small lifestyle changes that you can keep doing over time.

 What can you do to avoid unhealthy eating?

 Why is it important to make changes for healthy eating?

 How can you change your eating habits?

 Where to go from here

For more information, see the topic Healthy Eating.

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Last updated:	May 14, 2008
Author:	Ryan Powers
Reviewed By:	Ruth Schneider, MPH, RD - Diet and Nutrition, Rhonda O'Brien, MS, RD, CDE - Diabetes Educator
Editors:	Katy E. Magee, MA, Michele Cronen