Healthy Eating Every Day

Improve your health and the quality of your life through balanced eating! Healthy Eating Every Day is a unique, self-paced plan that teaches you how to improve your eating habits in ways that fit your lifestyle.

This practical, research-based strategy addresses the root causes of unhealthy eating, and gives you the tools to succeed in eating better. In Healthy Eating Every Day, you’ll discover how to choose the right balance of the right foods for optimal health, set realistic goals and rewards, and cope with triggers for unhealthy eating. You’ll also learn other helpful tips:

— Keep healthy eating in mind while shopping for food — Eat well when dining out or away from home — Make sense of nutrition information and diet product claims

Plus, Healthy Eating Every Day contains checklists, charts, and other features that will help you personalize the program and keep it fun all the way through. This book is also used in the Healthy Eating Every Day course, which was developed in partnership with The Cooper Institute. The Healthy Eating Every Day course is available at several places around the world as well as online.Fad diets offer only short-term results that often do more harm than good. Healthy Eating Every Day is a sensible, step-by-step lifetime plan that works!

Ruth Ann Carpenter, MS, RD, LD, is the director of the center for research dissemination at The Cooper Institute in Dallas, Texas. She is a registered dietitian with a master’s degree in applied nutrition and additional coursework in exercise science.

Carpenter has directed The Cooper Institute’s nutrition research for 15 years and was the codeveloper and a group facilitator for the Lifestyle Nutrition Study, which served as the basis for Healthy Eating Every Day.

She has coauthored five books, including Active Living Every Day, and developed educational programs for clients such as the American Heart Association, Kellogg’s, Tropicana, PowerBar, Jenny Craig, Novartis, and Roche. She serves as secretary for the American Dietetic Association’s (ADA) weight management dietetic practice group and is a member of the ADA’s sports, cardiovascular, and wellness dietetic practice group.

Carrie E. Finley, MS, is a project manager in the center for data management at The Cooper Institute. She codeveloped the curriculum for the Lifestyle Nutrition Study and was a cofacilitator in the program, which provided the framework for Healthy Eating Every Day. Finley manages the nutritional epidemiology project at The Cooper Institute with the goal of studying the associations among dietary intake, fitness, and health outcomes. With a master’s degree in epidemiology and a bachelor’s degree in nutritional sciences, she is skilled in understanding the impact of dietary habits on health and behaviors.