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April’s Challenge: Make MyPlate your plate

“In nursing school, we learned that food is like medicine. It affects everything in your body.” – Brittnee MacIntyre
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MyPlate Resources

Here are three of our favorite USDA online tools that are free and easy-to-use.

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MyPlate Guides

You can complete this challenge, too! Our MyPlate guide and journal can help.

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MyPlate Recipes

Try these tasty Healthy Bites recipes to fill your plate with cancer-fighting foods.

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Why MyPlate?

The MyPlate icon is an easy-to-understand nutrition tool that supports many of the food recommendations for reducing cancer risks. That’s because MyPlate focuses on filling most of your plate with cancer-fighting plant foods, like vegetables, fruits and grains..

© 2013 The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center