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2015-2020 Dietary guidelines
Get the skinny on current dietary recommendations about which foods to choose and which to avoid.
Added sugar
Alcohol during the holidays: 4 ways to sip smarter
Alcohol use
Drinking alcohol might offer some health benefits. But that's only if you drink responsibly and in moderation.
Are dietary supplements right for you?
Artificial sweeteners
Beans and other legumes: Cooking tips
Benefits of cooking at home
Breast-feeding nutrition: Tips for moms
Bromelain
Caffeine content
Caffeine: How much is too much?
Calcium
Calories and nutrients to fuel sports performance
Carbohydrate-loading diet
Carbohydrates
Chart of high-fiber foods
Cholesterol: Top foods to improve your numbers
Clear liquid diet
Cook a perfect Thanksgiving dinner
Credible nutrition information
Curcumin
Cuts of beef
Daily water requirement
DASH diet
DASH diet
DASH diet tips
The DASH diet doesn't have to be difficult. These tips can help you shop and cook according to DASH diet principles.
DASH recommended servings
The DASH diet emphasizes whole grains, fruits, vegetables and low-fat dairy products. This table of recommended servings can help you plan meals.
Dietary fats
Dietary fiber
Dietary supplements: What to know before you buy
Diverticulitis diet
Fast food: Tips for choosing healthier options
Foodborne illness
For a healthy gut, feed the good bugs
Gluten-free alternatives to wheat flour
Gluten-free diet
Glycemic index diet
Gout diet
Healthy breakfast options
Healthy cooking
Healthy eating plans
Want help eating healthy? Food pyramids and other symbols make it easier for you to make healthy choices.
Healthy-cooking techniques
Healthy-eating habits
Herbal supplements
Holiday recipes
Ingredient substitutions
Is your dietary supplement safe?
Low-fiber diet
Make healthy snack choices
Mayo Clinic Healthy Weight Pyramid tool
Go beyond the fad diets. Here's your permanent solution for weight control.
Meat and poultry
Learn ways to trim the fat from meat and poultry without sacrificing taste and enjoyment.
Meatless meals
Mediterranean diet
This heart-healthy eating plan emphasizes healthy fats, fruits and vegetables.
Mediterranean diet recipes
Melatonin
Menu planning
Menus for heart-healthy eating
Navigate the farmers market
Nutrition and pain
Nutrition Facts label
Use this interactive guide to decipher the Nutrition Facts label and break the code on healthy eating.
Nutritional supplements
Nuts and your heart: Eating nuts for heart health
Organic foods
Paleo diet
Recipe makeovers
Many recipes can benefit from a healthy overhaul. Here are five ways to reduce the fat, calories and salt in your favorite recipes.
Reduce sugar in your diet
Reduce sugar in your diet
Sample DASH menus
Sample menu
Simple steps to making fall soups
Smart practices for healthy living
Social eating can be healthy and enjoyable
Sodium
Soup recipes
Strategies to prepare and enjoy healthy meals at home more often
Summer recipe collection
Thanksgiving recipes
Tips for staying supplement savvy
Trans fat
Understand clean eating
Vegetarian diet
Vegetarian recipes
What are multivitamin/mineral dietary supplements?
What are omega-3 fatty acids from fish oil?
What are probiotics?
What does a 'seal of approval' mean?
What is Boswellia?
What is ginger?
What is whey protein?
Whole grains
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- Mayo Clinic Healthy Living Program
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- Book: Mayo Clinic on Digestive Health
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See also
- Healthy-eating habits
- 5 strategies to improve eating habits
- Navigate the farmers market
- Reduce sugar in your diet
- Acai berries
- Added sugar
- Alcohol use
- Alkaline water
- Mediterranean diet
- Are dietary supplements right for you?
- Art of Healthy Eating
- Artificial sweeteners
- Beans and other legumes: Cooking tips
- 2015-2020 Dietary guidelines
- Breast-feeding nutrition: Tips for moms
- BVO
- Butter vs. margarine
- Caffeine content
- Caffeine: How much is too much?
- Is caffeine dehydrating?
- Calcium
- Calcium supplements for men
- Timing calcium supplements
- Calories in sushi
- Can vitamins help prevent a heart attack?
- Can whole-grain foods lower blood pressure?
- Canned pumpkin
- Canola oil
- Carbohydrate-loading diet
- Carbohydrates
- Chart of high-fiber foods
- Chocolate and calcium absorption
- Cholesterol: Top foods to improve your numbers
- Clear liquid diet
- Coffee and health
- Benefits of cooking at home
- Strategies to prepare and enjoy healthy meals at home more often
- Cuts of beef
- DASH diet
- DASH diet
- DASH recommended servings
- DASH diet tips
- Detox diets
- Diet soda: Is it bad for you?
- Dietary fats
- Dietary fiber
- Dietary supplements: What to know before you buy
- Diverticulitis attack triggers
- Diverticulitis diet
- Diverticulitis and nuts
- Vitamin C and mood
- Prickly pear cactus
- E. coli in food
- Make healthy snack choices
- Eggs and cholesterol
- Energy drinks
- Enlarged prostate: Does diet play a role?
- Eye vitamins: Can they prevent or treat glaucoma?
- Fast food: Tips for choosing healthier options
- Fasting diet: Can it improve my heart health?
- Fat grams
- For a healthy gut, feed the good bugs
- Fiber supplements
- Food safety
- Foodborne illness
- Foods for healthy skin
- Gluten-free diet
- Gluten sensitivity and psoriasis: What’s the connection?
- Gluten-free alternatives to wheat flour
- Glycemic index diet
- Gout diet
- Grape juice health benefits
- Grass-fed beef
- Ground flaxseed
- Healthy breakfast options
- Is chocolate healthy?
- Healthy cooking
- Healthy heart for life: Avoiding heart disease
- Healthy options for adapting recipes
- Ingredient substitutions
- Mayo Clinic Healthy Weight Pyramid tool
- Healthy-cooking techniques
- Slide show: Heart-healthy eating after acute coronary syndrome
- Herbal supplements
- High-fructose corn syrup
- High-protein diets
- Alcohol during the holidays: 4 ways to sip smarter
- Holiday recipes
- Meat and poultry
- Takeout containers
- Is your dietary supplement safe?
- Juicing
- Depression and diet
- Lentils: How do I cook with them?
- Low-fiber diet
- Sample menu
- Meatless meals
- Mediterranean diet
- Mediterranean diet recipes
- Menu planning
- Menus for heart-healthy eating
- Moldy cheese
- Monosodium glutamate (MSG)
- MUFAs
- Multigrain vs. whole grain
- Multivitamins for kids
- Credible nutrition information
- Nutrition Facts label
- Nuts and your heart: Eating nuts for heart health
- Olive oil
- Omega-6 fatty acids
- Organic foods
- Paleo diet
- Percent Daily Value
- Phenylalanine
- Picnic Problems: High Sodium
- Prenatal vitamins
- Healthy eating plans
- Recipe makeovers
- Sample DASH menus
- Sea salt vs. table salt
- Reduce sugar in your diet
- Simple steps to making fall soups
- Health foods
- Mediterranean diet
- Vegetable recipes
- Antioxidants
- Fruit 5 ways
- Gourmet salt
- Cooking fish
- Guide to beans and legumes
- High-fiber diet
- Portion control
- Planning healthy meals
- Guide to herbs and spices
- Smart practices for healthy living
- Social eating can be healthy and enjoyable
- Sodium
- Sodium nitrate in meat: Heart disease risk factor?
- Soup recipes
- Stevia
- Sugar challenge: Cut the sweetness for 2 weeks
- Summer recipe collection
- Nutritional supplements
- Tap water or bottled water: Which is better?
- Taurine in energy drinks
- Thanksgiving recipes
- Cooking frozen turkey
- Bromelain
- Calories and nutrients to fuel sports performance
- Curcumin
- Melatonin
- Nutrition and pain
- What are omega-3 fatty acids from fish oil?
- What is Boswellia?
- What is ginger?
- What is whey protein?
- Tips for staying supplement savvy
- Vitamin C megadoses
- Trans fat
- Underweight: Add pounds healthfully
- Vegetable juice
- Vegetarian diet
- Vegetarian Kids
- Vegetarian recipes
- Making healthy turkey and gravy
- Vitamin D and MS: Any connection?
- Vitamin D: Can it prevent Alzheimer's & dementia?
- Vitamin D deficiency
- Vitamin D for babies
- Vitamin D toxicity
- Vitamins for MS: Do supplements make a difference?
- Vitamins 101
- Water after meals
- Daily water requirement
- Water softeners and sodium
- Functional foods
- What are probiotics?
- What does a 'seal of approval' mean?
- Understand clean eating
- What are multivitamin/mineral dietary supplements?
- What is BPA?
- Wheatgrass
- Cooking oil
- White whole wheat
- Whole grains
- Yerba mate
- Cook a perfect Thanksgiving dinner