Like with many of our other websites we have developed through the years, we thought long and hard before we decided to develop MyDietGoal.com as a necessary health and nutrition source.

We made the simple assumption that the equation of life and food is the most basic of all existential equations, and therefore this website will be a net positive contribution to society and a value added to our visitors and customers.

It’s a simple, obvious truth. We need food for the basics of everyday life – to pump blood, move muscles, think thoughts. But we can also eat to live well and live longer. By making the right choices, we will help ourselves avoid some of the things we think of as the inevitable penalties of getting older. A healthy diet teamed up with regular exercise and no smoking can eliminate eighty percent of heart disease and seventy percent of some cancers. Making poor choices such as eating too much of the wrong kinds of food and too little of the right kinds, or too much food altogether increases our chances of developing cancer, heart disease, diabetes, digestive disorders, and aging-related loss of vision. An unhealthy diet during pregnancy can even cause some birth defects.

Separating what’s good from what’s bad can be a discouraging task. Each day we have to choose from an ever increasing number of foods and products, some good, most not so good by any stretch of the imagination.

Maybe the time we have to prepare food, or even to eat, seems to shrink by the month. To make matters worse, we may feel overwhelmed by contradictory advice on what to eat. Daily newspapers or TV newscasts routinely serves up results from the latest nutrition studies. Magazines trumpet the hottest diets complete with heartfelt testimonials. One new diet or nutrition book hits the bookshelves every other day. Even supermarkets and fast-food restaurants offer advice, as do cereal boxes and a sea of Internet websites. This jumble of information quickly turns into nutritional white noise that many people tune out.

For no-nonsense, rock-solid nutrition information, people often look to the Food Guide Pyramid – just like the one on our homepage – developed by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA). Please note that we provide information that is much more detailed and much more updated than the USDA, which was wrote and developed in 1992.

MyDietGoal.com offers straight talk that rises above the jungle of misinformation and contradictory claims. A lot of sources out there offer inaccurate, scientifically unfounded advice on an absolutely vital topic – what we eat to live. At worst, the misinformation contributes to overweight, poor health, and unnecessary early deaths. In either case it stands as a missed opportunity to improve the health of millions of people.

We wrote the text for this website to offer a new healthy eating guide based on the best scientific evidence, a guide that helps our website visitors make better choices about what they eat. We also wanted to give our readers the latest information on new discoveries that should have profound effects on their eating patterns.

We will lay out the evidence that shaped MyDietGoal.com for healthy eating and will also chart out extra information to help people with special nutritional needs get the most benefit from what they eat. These people include pregnant women, older people, and people with, or at high risk of, heart disease, diabetes, high cholesterol, high blood pressure, and some other chronic conditions.