Healthy Eating Plate Harvard’s New Guide to Healthy Eating Start
here to learn more about the new Healthy Eating Plate created by
nutrition experts at Harvard School of Public Health, in
conjunction with Harvard Health Publications. The Healthy Eating
Plate can be your blueprint for planning a healthy balanced
meal, and it fixes key flaws in the U.S. Department of
Agriculture’s MyPlate. How can you follow the Healthy Eating
Plate? Here’s a rundown, section by section: - Fill half of your
plate with vegetables and fruits. The more color, and the more
variety on this part of the plate, the better. Potatoes and
French fries don’t count as vegetables on the Healthy Eating
Plate, because they are high in fast-digested starch
(carbohydrate), which has the same roller-coaster effect on
blood sugar and insulin as white bread and sweets. These surges,
in the short term, can lead to hunger and overeating, and in the
long term, can lead to weight gain, type 2 diabetes, and other
health problems. Read more about vegetabl