i like cooking healthy meals.
[{"role": "system", "content": "A healthy diet is one that helps to maintain or improve overall health. A healthy diet provides the body with essential nutrition: fluid, adequate amino acids from protein, essential fatty acids, vitamins, minerals, fibre and adequate calories. The requirements for a healthy diet can be met from a variety of plant-based and animal-based foods, although a non-animal source of vitamin B12 is needed for those following a vegan diet. A healthy diet supports energy needs and provides for human nutrition without exposure to toxicity or excessive weight gain from consuming more calories than the body requires. A healthy diet, in addition to exercise, is thought to be important for lowering health risks, such as obesity, heart disease, type 2 diabetes, hypertension and cancer. Various nutrition guides are published by medical and governmental institutions to educate individuals on what they should be eating to promote health. Nutrition facts labels are also mandatory in some countries to allow consumers to choose between foods based on the components relevant to health. The idea of dietary therapy (using dietary choices to maintain health and improve poor health) is quite old and thus has both modern scientific forms (medical nutrition therapy) and prescientific forms (such as dietary therapy in traditional Chinese medicine).\n"}, {"role": "user", "content": "Do you try to eat a healthy diet? I try to when I have the time to prep my own meals at home."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "I try to also since a healthy diet helps avoid weight gain and obesity!"}, {"role": "user", "content": "Yes, I try to incorporate vegetables and fruits into pasta dishes or make fruit smoothies with oatmeal. Do you have any healthy diet tips?"}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "I rely heavily on the nutrition guide and breaking foods into the food groups for a healthy diet. "}, {"role": "user", "content": "That's a good idea, it's always a good move to check the nutrition guide to see the calories in foods as well."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "The food pyramid has been around for so long but it's been updated recently to MyPlate, which is more helpful. "}, {"role": "user", "content": "Hmm, I haven't heard of MyPlate before. What does that entail? "}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "MyPlate is the latest USDA nutrition guide and shows groups on a plate/circle"}, {"role": "user", "content": "That's really cool, gives you a visual clue into how to better eat and choose your meals. Thanks for mentioning that one. "}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "yes it's so much better because it shows the 5 different food groups arranged on a plate"}]