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5 Overarching Guidelines Follow a healthy eating pattern across the life span. Focus on variety, nutrient density, and amount. Limit calories from added sugars and saturated fats, and reduce sodium intake. Shift to healthier food and beverage choices.

The purpose of the Dietary Guidelines for Americans is to provide advice on what to eat and drink to build a healthy diet that can promote healthy growth and development, help prevent diet-related chronic disease, and meet nutrient needs.

The Dietary Guidelines for Americans (Dietary Guidelines) provides advice on what to eat and drink to meet nutrient needs, promote health, and prevent disease.

Eat a variety of foods. Balance the food you eat with physical activity-- maintain or improve your weight. Choose a diet with plenty of grain products, especially whole grains; vegetables and fruit. Choose a diet low in fat, saturated fat, cholesterol and trans fat.

The Dietary Guidelines focuses on the combination of foods and beverages that make up an individual's whole diet over time, and not single foods or eating occasions in isolation. Research shows that the ongoing pattern of an individual's eating habits has the greatest impact on their health.

The Dietary Guidelines for Americans provides advice on what to eat and drink to meet nutrient needs, promote health, and prevent disease. It is developed and written for a professional audience, including policymakers, healthcare providers, nutrition educators, and Federal nutrition program operators.

Shifts. A term for healthy substitutions—replacing typical food choices with nutrient-dense alternatives. Healthy shifts can be within food groups or between them. Making healthy shifts is a great way to add more nutrient-dense foods while eating fewer foods with added sugars, saturated and trans fats, and sodium.

Eat a variety of foods. Maintain healthy weight. Choose a diet low in fat, saturated fat, and cholesterol. Choose a diet with plenty of vegetables, fruits, and grain products.