The document provides tips for making healthy lifestyle choices by eating a colorful diet of fruits and vegetables and engaging in regular physical activity. It recommends eating foods of different colors like oranges, reds, greens, blues/purples, and yellows, which provide different vitamins, minerals, and antioxidants. Each color group lists examples of foods and associated health benefits. It also stresses finding physical activities you enjoy for best results in improving health.

1. Be Smart for Life! Some simple tips for making lifestyle choices that are sure to change your life for the better ... Ruth Kastenmayer Judson College Webmaster

2. Where to start? Come up with a reasonable plan. Consider easy ways to change your diet. Add some activity that you really enjoy.

3. Vitamins Minerals Water The Six Classes of Nutrients Carbohydrates Fats Proteins

5. Try putting something of every color on your plate! Choose your foods by color If you do, you will be likely to eat at least five servings of fruits and vegetables every day.

6. BRIGHT ORANGES (carrots, mandarin oranges, sweet potatoes and mango), Color your daily diet with:

7. Bright Oranges Vitamin C and Vitamin E Beta Carotene, a natural antioxidant that enhances your immune system Folate, a B vitamin that may help prevent some birth defects (carrots, mandarin oranges, sweet potatoes and mango)

8. BRIGHT ORANGES (carrots, mandarin oranges, sweet potatoes and mango) Color your daily diet with: DEEP REDS (tomatoes, cherries and strawberries)

9. Deep Reds (tomatoes, cherries and strawberries) Lycopene, a powerful antioxidant that may reduce the risk of select cancers

10. BRIGHT ORANGES (carrots, mandarin oranges, sweet potatoes and mango) DEEP REDS (tomatoes, cherries and strawberries) Color your daily diet with: DARK GREENS (broccoli, asparagus and kale)

11. Dark Greens (broccoli, asparagus and kale) Lutein and zeanthin, carotenoids that have antioxidant properties that protect your eyes Green cruciferous vegetables (such as cabbage, brussel sprouts, cauliflower, kale and turnips) may reduce the risk of cancerous tumors.

12. BRIGHT ORANGES (carrots, mandarin oranges, sweet potatoes and mango), DEEP REDS (tomatoes, cherries and strawberries) DARK GREENS (broccoli, asparagus and kale) Color your daily diet with: BEAUTIFUL BLUES & PURPLES (blueberries, eggplant and plums)

13. Blues & Purples (blueberries, eggplant and plums) Anthocyanins, phytochemicals responsible for the blue color in fruits and vegetables help to defend against harmful carcinogens. Blueberries, in particular, have been shown to increase brain function.

14. BRIGHT ORANGES (carrots, mandarin oranges, sweet potatoes and mango), DEEP REDS (tomatoes, cherries and strawberries) DARK GREENS (broccoli, asparagus and kale) BEAUTIFUL BLUES & PURPLES (blueberries, eggplant and plums) Color your daily diet with: SUNSHINE YELLOW (squash, pineapple and corn)

15. Sunshine Yellows (squash, pineapple and corn) High in essential vitamins and carotenoids. Pineapple, for example, is rich in Vitamin C, manganese, and the natural enzyme bromelain that aids in digestion.

16. walking dancing running aerobics weight training yoga etc. *If you don’t think the activity is fun, you will not do it enough to make a difference! Find an exercise that you really enjoy, e.g.

17. Why not start today? What’s for lunch? Try to pick a colorful meal and be sure to drink plenty of water.

18. This afternoon, find something you like to do and ... Keep Moving!

19. The Menu Ginger Carrot Soup Salmon Filet with Fruit Salsa Spinach with Garlic Mashed Sweet Potatoes Garden Salad Plus Berries with Yogurt Jean Carper's Ideal Meal USA Weekend, January 13, 2002. Photo by Brian Smith

20. Be SMART for LIFE! Ruth Kastenmayer Judson College Webmaster