--- title: Healthy Eating Habits description: This subject focuses on practical strategies for developing and maintaining balanced dietary patterns. Learners will understand portion control, food labeling, meal planning, and behavioral techniques to support sustainable, health-promoting eating behaviors in daily life. category: health-medicine subcategory: nutrition difficulty: beginner, intermediate, advanced url: /subject/nutrition-healthy-eating-habits --- # Healthy Eating Habits This subject focuses on practical strategies for developing and maintaining balanced dietary patterns. Learners will understand portion control, food labeling, meal planning, and behavioral techniques to support sustainable, health-promoting eating behaviors in daily life. ## Available Resources 3 Books • 2 Courses • 4 Websites ## Websites ### 1. Harvard T.H. Chan Nutrition Source Harvard nutrition researchers present a meal-composition guide built from the evidence, with the reasoning for each portion of the plate and where it departs from federal guidance. You come away able to assemble balanced meals and defend the choices. **Difficulty:** Beginner | **Price:** Free **Link:** https://nutritionsource.hsph.harvard.edu/healthy-eating-plate/ **Tags:** nutrition, healthy-eating, dietary-guidelines, meal-planning, public-health ### 2. MyPlate.gov The USDA's official dietary guidance site, with food-group targets by age and activity level, printable plans, recipes, and a quiz that generates a personal daily plan. Useful for translating the Dietary Guidelines into concrete portions. **Difficulty:** Beginner | **Price:** Free **Link:** https://www.myplate.gov **Tags:** nutrition, dietary-guidelines, usda, meal-planning, healthy-eating ### 3. NutritionFacts.org **Author:** Michael Greger Nonprofit site founded by physician Michael Greger that summarises peer-reviewed nutrition studies in short videos, articles and podcasts, searchable by food and disease. It argues consistently for plant-based eating, so readers can follow the research behind that position and check its sources. **Difficulty:** Beginner | **Language:** English | **Price:** Free **Link:** https://nutritionfacts.org **Tags:** plant-based-diet, nutrition-research, chronic-disease-prevention, evidence-summaries ### 4. eatright.org EatRight.org is the consumer site of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics, offering evidence-based nutrition guidance, healthy eating tips, meal planning ideas, and resources to locate a registered dietitian. **Difficulty:** Intermediate | **Language:** English | **Price:** Free **Link:** https://eatright.org **Tags:** websites, health-medicine, health-and-wellness ## Courses ### 1. Introduction to Food and Health Around the world, we find ourselves facing global epidemics of obesity, Type 2 Diabetes and other predominantly diet-related diseases. To address these public health crises, we urgently need to explore innovative strategies for promoting healthful eating. There is strong evidence that global increases in the consumption of heavily processed foods, coupled with cultural shifts away from the preparation of food in the home, have contributed to high rates of preventable, chronic disease. In this course, learners will be given the information and practical skills they need to begin optimizing the way they eat. This course will shift the focus away from reductionist discussions about nutrients and move, instead, towards practical discussions about real food and the environment in which we consume it. By the end of this course, learners should have the tools they need to distinguish between foods that will support their health and those that threaten it. In addition, we will present a compelling rationale for a return to simple home cooking, an integral part of our efforts to live longer, healthier lives. View the trailer for the course here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z7x1aaZ03xU **Difficulty:** Beginner | **Price:** Free **Link:** https://www.coursera.org/learn/food-and-health **Tags:** nutrition, healthy-eating, home-cooking, processed-food, public-health ### 2. Nutrition and Healthy Eating A three-hour NASM course on reading packaged food labels: serving sizes, calorie counts, macronutrient and micronutrient panels, and ingredient lists. Covers how labeling regulations developed and how to compare products against your own dietary goals. **Difficulty:** Beginner | **Language:** English | **Price:** Free **Link:** https://www.coursera.org/learn/decoding-nutrition-labels **Tags:** courses, health-medicine, health-and-wellness ## Podcasts ### 1. Nutrition Facts **Author:** Michael Greger, M.D. FACLM Have you ever wondered if there’s a natural way to lower your high blood pressure, guard against Alzheimer’s, lose weight, and feel better? Well, as it turns out, there is. Michael Greger, M.D. FACLM, founder of NutritionFacts.org and New York Times best-selling author of How Not to Die, How Not to Diet, and the just-released How Not to Age, uncovers the best evidence-based nutrition that may add years to our life and life to our years. **Difficulty:** Beginner | **Language:** en-US | **Price:** Free **Link:** https://nutritionfacts.org/audio/ **Tags:** nutrition, plant-based-diet, evidence-based-nutrition, disease-prevention ## Books ### 1. The Blue Zones American Kitchen: 100 Recipes to Live to 100 **Author:** Dan Buettner Cookbook of 100 plant-forward recipes drawn from American regional and immigrant cuisines, framed by Dan Buettner's Blue Zones research on long-lived populations. Readers learn the dietary patterns linked to longevity and how to cook beans, greens, whole grains and vegetables daily. **Difficulty:** Beginner | **Language:** English | **Price:** Paid **Link:** https://www.amazon.com/dp/1426222475?tag=edmonddante07-20 **Tags:** plant-based-eating, longevity, blue-zones, healthy-recipes ### 2. Intuitive Eating **Author:** Evelyn Tribole & Elyse Resch Ten principles for rejecting diet rules and rebuilding trust in hunger, fullness, and satisfaction cues. Two registered dietitians explain the research behind the approach and give practical steps for eating without restriction, guilt, or weight preoccupation. **Difficulty:** Intermediate | **Language:** English | **Price:** Paid **Link:** https://www.amazon.com/dp/0312321236?tag=edmonddante07-20 **Tags:** books, health-medicine, health-and-wellness ### 3. The Mindful Eating Workbook **Author:** Vincci Tsui Exercises from a non-diet dietitian for noticing hunger, fullness, and emotional triggers while eating. Working through it builds a mindful eating practice without calorie counting or portion rules, and addresses guilt around food choices. **Difficulty:** Intermediate | **Language:** English | **Price:** Paid **Link:** https://www.amazon.com/dp/164152314X?tag=edmonddante07-20 **Tags:** books, health-medicine, health-and-wellness --- *This content is part of Dantes.io - Your Treasure Map to Knowledge* *Curated by humans at Dantes.io. Personal study use welcome; republishing this curation requires permission (team@dantes.io).* View this page online: https://dantes.io/subject/nutrition-healthy-eating-habits