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Mayo Clinic Healthy Weight Pyramid: A sample menu
This sample menu shows you how the Mayo Clinic Healthy Weight Pyramid can help you plan daily meals and snacks.
By Mayo Clinic staff
The Mayo Clinic Healthy Weight Pyramid is a tool designed to help you eat a balanced, nutritious diet while achieving a healthy weight. It illustrates the types and amounts of food you need to eat every day from each of the five represented food groups.
This sample menu shows you how the Mayo Clinic Healthy Weight Pyramid can help you plan daily meals and snacks. Note that if you're hungry, reach for more fruits and vegetables. But make sure your fruit is fresh or is canned in water or juice with the liquid poured off. Limit dried fruit and fruit juice to no more than one to two servings a day because they're high in calories and low in volume. Regular vegetable juice is high in sodium, so you may need or wish to choose a low-sodium variety.
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