Nutrition

Healthy Dining Finder

Watching what you eat? Healthy Dining Finder provides you with nutrition information for delicious meals at restaurants near you, from fast food to fine dining.

Fruits and Veggies Matter

Almost everyone needs to eat more fruits and vegetables. A growing body of research shows that fruits and vegetables are critical to promoting good health. To get the amount that's recommended, most people need to increase the amount of fruits and vegetables they currently eat every day. How many fruits and vegetables do you need?

Eat More, Weigh Less?

Have you tried to lose weight by cutting down the amount of food you eat? Do you still feel hungry and not satisfied after eating? Or have you avoided trying to lose weight because you're afraid of feeling hungry all the time? If so, you are not alone. Many people throw in the towel on weight loss because they feel deprived and hungry when they eat less. But there is another way. Click here to find out how to manage your weight without being hungry.

Nutrition for Everyone

Achieving or maintaining a healthy weight is a challenge. You need to understand the connection between the calories your body takes in and the calories your body uses, how to get the most nutrition out of those calories, and how to find a good balance between food and physical activity. Click here for help.

The Bottom Line on Vitamins

Trying to follow all the studies on vitamins and health can make your head swirl. But, when it’s all boiled down, the take–home message is actually pretty simple: A daily multivitamin, and maybe an extra vitamin D supplement, is a great way to make sure you’re getting all the nutrients you need to be healthy. Click the picture on the right to learn more about some of the vitamins with newly recognized or suspected roles in health and disease.

Weight-control Information Network

The Weight-control Information Network provides the general public, health professionals, the media, and Congress with up-to-date, science-based information on weight control, obesity, physical activity, and related nutritional issues.

MyPyramid

One size doesn't fit all. MyPyramid offers personalized eating plans, interactive tools to help you plan and assess your food choices, and advice to help you:

• Make smart choices from every food group
• Find your balance between food and physical activity
• Get the most nutrition out of your calories
• Stay within your daily calorie needs

Farmers Markets

Click here for a listing of our local farmers markets. Don't see your favorite on the list? Email us and we'll add it!

Tucson Community Supported Agriculture

Be part of a local food system. Know who your farmer is. Cook creatively. Eat healthily. Support local sustainable farming. Be kinder to the environment. Have fun. The Tucson CSA offers three-month subscriptions, or “shares,” to local organic farms. A share consist of weekly bags of fresh, local, naturally-grown produce, straight from the field. Click the logo to find out how to participate.

The Community Food Bank's Home Garden Program

The goal of this program is to provide resources and know-how to individuals and families interested in growing some of their own food. In this way, the power to grow fresh, nutritious, chemical-free vegetables is in the hands of those who wish to eat them! Click here to learn more.