The Healthy Eating Plate
Carla Duenas, Registered Dietitian with Baptist Health South Florida, says the healthy eating plate is the ideal tool for healthy eating, for weight loss, it promotes health in general for heart disease, and diabetes, for example.
She explains half of the plate is vegetables, "this really increases the amount of fiber vitamins mineral"; only 25% of the plate is carbs, and the other 25% is protein.