Healthy eating tip 1: Set yourself up for success

To set yourself up for success, think about planning a healthy diet as a number of small, manageable steps rather than one big drastic change. If you approach the changes gradually and with commitment, you will have a healthy diet sooner than you think.

Healthy Eating Pyramid

1. Start with exercise. A healthy diet is built on a base of regular exercise, which keeps calories in balance and weight in check. Read five quick tips for staying active and getting to your healthy weight, and a dozen ideas for fitting exercise into your life.

2. Focus on food, not grams. The Healthy Eating Pyramid doesn’t worry about specific servings or grams of food, so neither should you. It’s a simple, general guide to how you should eat when you eat.

How many calories you should take?

The body needs calories to work - maintain fracture heart, pump blood and improve the respiratory system.

Even then, each individual is unique. Hence, every person has a different ability to burn calories. However, something sure not many calories you burn while watching television or playing video games. Watching television only burn one calorie per minute, the same amount that you can get if sleeping.