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Healthy Eating Guides

Healthy Eating Plate and Kids Healthy Eating Plate

(Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health)

An illustration and description of a Healthy Eating Plate, from the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public HealthIllustrated version of Kid's Healthy Eating Plate from the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health

MyPlate and Kids MyPlate

(USDA.gov)

Information sheet about MyPlate, a nutrition program from the USDAKids coloring sheet from MyPlate.gov

Nutrition Books @ Kalamazoo Valley Libraries

Podcasts

Neighborhood Nutrition

Listen to the Neighborhood Nutrition podcast to learn tips and tricks about nutrition and making the most out of your food dollars from community nutrition instructors at Michigan State University Extension.  

Sound Bites

Hosted by award-winning nutrition expert Melissa Joy Dobbins MS, RDN, CDCES. "Engages researchers, academics, authors, dietitians and more to delve into the science, psychology and strategies behind good food and nutrition. Topics vary from fad diets to farming to fertility and beyond. Listeners gain credible information to help them make their own, well-informed nutrition decisions based on facts, not fear."

Nutrition Diva

Hosted by Monica Reinagel, MS, LD/N, CNS, "Nutrition Diva will help you sort food facts from fiction, separate the good information from the bad, and make eating healthy just a little bit easier – and a lot saner."

Spot On!

Hosted by Dr. Joan Salge Blake, Nutrition Author, Media Expert, and Nutrition Professor at Boston University. Spot On! covers timely nutrition topics, offering accurate and practical health and wellness information.