Free Nutrition Web Sites to Help You Keep that New Year's Resolution

Keeping a New Year's Resolution to eat right is one of the most popular New Year's Resolutions in the U.S. It rightly follows behind getting fit. Eating right is not as easy as it sounds when you are busy, always on the go, trying to feed a family, work, go to school, be involved in community, and oh, have a life. There are 8 free web sites that can help you keep a New Year's resolution to eat right.

What you won't find: you wont' find crash diet web sites, web sites promoting one or two herbal or other diet supplements or diet drinks or web sites for paid online diet plans. These are all useful, user-friendly and free web sites about nutrition, food portions and healthy eating that can help the average person keep a New Year's Resolution to eat right.

Keep a New Year's Resolution to Eat Right

#1 Free Nutrition Web Site: Food Guide Pyramid

Before you can eat right, the first step to keeping your New Year's resolution is to know what "eat right" means. The first step in understanding eating right is knowing which foods are currently recommended on the food guide pyramid.

Find the basic food guide pyramid here, courtesy of the U.S. Department of Agriculture.

#2 Free Nutrition Web Site: MyPyramid Plan

The food guide pyramid web site has become more sophisticated over the last few years, and you can find pyramids for your specific needs.

You can even personalize the food pyramid based on your age, sex, current weight, height, and level of physical activity. If you happen to fall out of your healthy weigh range, the web site will give you two pyramid options: to see the pyramid for your current weight, or to see a pyramid plan "to gradually move toward a healthier weight? A useful exercise to help you eat better adn keep your New Year's resolution is to print out both plans and compare them side by side, to get a better understanding of how you can eat better.

Find your MyPyramid Plan here.

# 3 Free Nutrition Web Site: How to Read a Nutrition Facts Label

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