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Nutrition Helps in Preventing the Leading Causes of Death in America
Unhealthy eating and physical inactivity are responsible for at least 300,000
preventable deaths each year in America, only tobacco use causes more preventable
deaths. It does this by contributing to chronic diseases such as America’s 3
leading causes of death – #1 Heart Disease, #2 Cancer, and #3 Stroke.
Choose to eat healthy now, to help prevent chronic disease in your future. Try
following some of the American Heart Association’s new 2000 food guidelines:
- Eat a variety of fruits and vegetables. Choose 5 or more servings per day.
- Eat a variety of grain products, including whole grains. Choose 6 or more servings per day.
- Include fat-free and low-fat milk products, fish, legumes (beans), skinless poultry and lean meats.
- Choose fats with 2 grams or less saturated fat per serving, such as liquid and tub margarines, canola and olive oil.
- Balance the number of calories you eat with the number you use each day.
- Maintain a level of physical activity that keeps you fit and matches the number of calories you eat. Walk or do other activities for at least 30 minutes on most days. To lose weight, do enough activity to use up more calories than you eat every day.
- Limit your intake of foods high in calories or low in nutrition, including foods like soft drinks and candy that have a lot of sugars.
- Limit foods high in saturated fat, trans fat, and/or cholesterol, such as full-fat milk products, fatty meats, tropical oils, partially hydrogenated vegetable oils and egg yolks.
- Eat less than 6 grams of salt (sodium chloride) per day (2,400 milligrams of sodium).
- Have no more than one alcoholic drink per day if you're a woman and no more than two if you're a man. ("One drink" means it has no more than ˝ ounce of pure alcohol.)
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