6-Week Plan For Healthy Eating (2018)

Although messages about diet and nutrition are everywhere these days, it isn’t always easy to eat right and choose the healthiest foods. Now, in this interactive and informative online course from Harvard Medical School, you’ll get a simple, easy-to-follow plan that will help you get healthier in just 6 weeks.

Through engaging, interactive slides, downloadable charts, videos, and quizzes, you’ll see how to help your health with food. You’ll learn which meal can help to reduce your risk of high cholesterol and may even help improve your memory. You'll find quick tips for choosing the healthiest breakfast cereal, making a yummy yet healthy sandwich, and ensuring you don’t overeat at dinner.

Week by week, meal by meal, you’ll uncover the proven ways to fuel your body for better health.

Get started now on your way to better health with Harvard Health Publishing’s online course: 6-Week Plan for Healthy Eating!

Mallika Marshall

Mallika Marshall, MD, is an Emmy-award winning journalist and physician who serves as the regular Health Reporter at WBZ-TV in Boston. A practicing physician who is Board Certified in both internal medicine and pediatrics, Marshall serves on staff at Harvard Medical School and practices at the Massachusetts General Hospital's (MGH) Chelsea Urgent Care Clinic and MGH Revere Health Center.

Dr. Marshall is currently a Contributing Editor for Harvard Health Publications, the publishing division of Harvard Medical School. She also has served as host of “Dr. Mallika Marshall,” a series of health news reports that was nationally syndicated and aired in more than 70 markets, including major cities such as San Francisco, Atlanta, St. Louis, Cleveland, and Houston.

A cum laude graduate of Harvard College, Dr. Marshall received her medical degree with honors at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) School of Medicine. She completed her medical residency at Harvard in internal medicine and pediatrics.

Leonaura Rhodes

Dr. Leonaura Rhodes is a physician turned author and health writer. She is a content developer and medical writer for Harvard Health Publishing and Belvoir Media Group. Prior to her work as a medical writer, Dr. Rhodes served as a physician in the U.K. and as a health coach in the U.S. In 2014, she authored the book Beyond Soccer Mom: Strategies for a Fabulous Balanced Life. In her medical career,

Dr. Rhodes has worked in hospital medicine, general practice, developmental pediatrics, and public health. She gained her MD (MB ChB) from the University of Manchester and her Masters in Public Health (MPH) from the University of London. She lives in Connecticut with her husband and two children.

Kathy McManus

Kathy McManus is Director of the Department of Nutrition and Director of the Dietetic Internship at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital, a teaching affiliate of Harvard Medical School. In addition, she serves as the Director for Nutrition at Dana Farber Cancer Institute, and the director of Nutrition and Behavior Modification Programs for the Program for Weight Management at the Brigham.

Ms. McManus has been involved with a number of cardiovascular and obesity-related research trials during her years at Brigham, including an NIH funded obesity study, POUNDS (Preventing Overweight Using Novel Dietary Strategies) Lost as a co-investigator.

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