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It is relatively easy to start an online business. But of you don’t approach this in the right way you will never be successful. Many people that start an online business give up on it in a very short time. We do not want you to do the same.

In this powerful report we will identify the 7 mistakes that you need to avoid with your online business.

When you avoid these mistakes you will have a much greater chance of making your online business a success.

Most people that start an online business do it out of curiosity. They have seen many wild claims about how they can make a fortune with just a few clicks of their mouse so they get themselves a domain name and some hosting and play around.

They follow the methods outlined in some training program that promises them the world. Claims of instant traffic and all this kind of BS. When the reality sets in that there is no such thing as making a fortune in their underwear by clicking their mouse, and using “miracle software” they lose interest rapidly and quit.

The thing is that it costs very little to get started with an online business. A domain name is around $10 a year and web hosting $10 a month. If you install the WordPress blogging platform then you can set up a website for free. So with so little invested it is no wonder that so many people give up when they realize that it is not as easy as they think.

If you don’t treat your online business as a proper business then you are much more likely to fail. You do not have to invest a lot of money but you do need to make an emotional investment in your online business.

Setting up an online business is relatively easy – making it a success is not. It doesn’t matter what others tell you there is work involved to create a robust and sustainable online business. You will need to invest in tools like an autoresponder service to make it work properly.

You need to believe that you are creating an asset. The website that you build is your asset. As an exit strategy you can sell your website to an interested party for a considerable sum. When your online business is successful and making regular income there will be a lot of people interested in buying it if that is what you want to do.

To create a successful online business you need to work on it every day. Forget all the nonsense about miracle software. You need to learn to do the right things and get the word out about your online business all of the time.

If your online business is just a hobby or a fad to you then your chances of success go way down.

Imagine that you invested your life savings into a brick and mortar shop in the local mall. Would you treat that as a hobby or a fad? No you wouldn’t – so imagine that you have invested your life savings in your online business.

There are going to be days when things go wrong with your online business. Something will stop working or the campaigns that you are running are not delivering the results that you want. You need the resilience and commitment to overcome these problems and carry on. Treating your online business as a real business will help you to do that.

How many people that start an online business do you think create a plan for their business? The answer is very few. Nobody knows how many online businesses fail every year but it will be a lot. Most new online business owners do not set goals or create any kind of plan. They are then surprised when it all fails.

If you are going to start a n online business then set a goal for it. The easiest goal to set is a financial goal. Think about how much you want your online business to generate in the first 12 months and then turn that into your financial goal.

You are probably starting an online business because you believe that it can provide you with the freedom that you crave. This is fine and a successful online business can provide you with freedom. No more working a dead end job and commuting for hours.

Your online business has the potential to make you a lot of money. The only thing standing in the way is you. So use the SMART goal setting process to set your goals. If you are not familiar with this process here is what it means:

Specific – your goal must be specific e.g. my online business will generate $100,000 in the next year

Measurable – you must be able to measure how you are progressing with your goal. Fortunately there are a lot of tools available to measure the success of your online business

Achievable – forget the hype here. It is extremely unlikely that you will make a million dollars in your first year. Not impossible though

Realistic – think about the time that you have available and other resources such as money

Timed – you must add a time to your goal such as 1 year. Open ended goals are useless

After you have set your goal you need to create a plan to achieve it. What you want to end up with is a daily set of tasks that you can work on to move you closer to your goal. So think about the macro tasks of your plan and then break these down into daily micro tasks.

A simple plan would be:

Decide on the niche and online business model

Setup website

Add content

Find offers to promote

Promote

Of course these are high level activities and there would be sub tasks involved to achieve them. You can start today by deciding on the niche that you want to enter for example. Write your goals and plans down and carry them with you wherever you go.

You need to carefully consider the niche that you choose for your online business. If you get this wrong then you can spend a great deal of time, effort and money and not get much in return. There are thousands of niches but not all of them are a good fit for an online business.

In a lot of guides about setting up an online business they will tell you to follow your passions. There is good intention behind this. If you start an online business with a niche that you are passionate about then you will be more motivated to make it work.

That is all very well if the niche you are passionate about has the potential to make you a lot of money.

You may well be passionate about sheep shearing in the Outback, but how many other people are going to be?

There are two things that you need to look for when choosing a niche:

Is there demand?

Is there money in the niche?

If the answer to either of these questions is “no” then you need to find another niche. You can check the demand for a niche by using the free Google Keyword Planner. Just enter in some seed keywords that relate to your niche e.g. “drone photography” and see how many searches this and similar terms receive each month. The higher the number of searches the better.

To see if there is money in the niche use a seed keyword and perform a search in Google. Are there a lot of ads on the first page of the search results? If there are then this is a good indicator that there is money to be made.

You can also use a website called OfferVault.com and search for available offers using your seed keyword. If there are a lot then you are probably on a winner. There are some niches where you just know there will be a ton of demand and many opportunities to make money. In our opinion the top 3 are:

Health and fitness – weight loss etc

Wealth creation – make money online, investing etc

Personal development – better relationships, meeting boys/girls, self improvement etc

If you are in any doubt about choosing the right niche - go where the money is. Don’t worry if you are not an expert in the niche right now. You can learn and master it. It is better to do this than choose the wrong niche that you are an expert in and passionate about.

There are a number of different online business models that you can choose from. Some examples of this are:

- Affiliate marketing

- CPA marketing

- Selling your own products and services

- Freelance services

- Dropshipping

- Dropservicing

- Amazon FBA

- Your own ecommerce store

- Self publishing

It is critical that you choose the right online business model that suits your circumstances. To open your own ecommerce store or participate in Amazon FBA you will need to invest some money to purchase stock to sell. Do you have this money available? If not then you could borrow it but you are taking a risk here.

If you do not have a lot of time available then creating and selling your own products and services is going to be tough. You can outsource the creation of products but you will need to spend a fair bit of money doing this.

Do you have a particular skill that is in demand? Here are some freelance services that are always in demand:

- SEO optimized content writing

- Copywriting

- Graphic design (logos etc)

- Programming

- Web design and development

- Creating mobile applications

- Search engine optimization

- Social media marketing

If you have any of these skills then you can market them and make good money online. You will need to be disciplined if you are going to do this as your customers will expect work of the highest quality delivered on time.

Probably the easiest online business to get started with is affiliate marketing. If you don’t know what this is the concept is simple. There are a lot of product vendors out there that will pay you a commission for promoting and recommending their products.

All you have to do is to sign up to their affiliate program and then drive targeted traffic to the offer. Each time that someone makes a purchase using your affiliate link, you will earn a commission from the product vendor.

You can promote physical products or digital products. Physical products are an easier sell but the commissions tend to be low. It is harder to sell digital products but the commissions are usually much higher.

There are affiliate networks that you can use to find offers to promote. If you are interested in physical products then you could join the Amazon Associates Program. You can find thousands of products to promote but you will only make around 3% to 5% commissions.

If you go for digital products then you can join Clickbank.com or Digistore24.com and find products that offer 50% commission and higher. One thing that you need to bear in mind is that because it is so easy to get involved with affiliate marketing there are a lot of online business owners doing it so you are going to have competition.

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Introduction:

Why YouTube Stardom is the Perfect Way to Make it Big There are plenty of ways to make money online but none quite like becoming a YouTube celebrity. Making money through YouTube means not only that you have a very stable source of large income without putting in that much work – but it also means accomplishing some measure of actual fame. If you make it big on YouTube, then people will recognize you in the street and it can even end up leading to other opportunities for your business. This is how celebrities are made in the digital age, so why not get involved?

Of course this is not what a YouTube celebrity will actually tell you. They’ll say that they’ve got it hard – that making content for YouTube is harder than it looks and that Google takes most of their commission.

This may be true but at the end of the day, they’re still often making a video a day maximum (often only a video a week!) and they’re still making huge amounts of money for talking on camera about something they love.

But don’t get me wrong – none of this is to say that becoming a YouTube celebrity is ‘get rich quick scheme’. Not by any stretch of the imagination!

In fact, making money on YouTube is not easy at all and there is a definite skill to this and a fair bit of luck involved too. A lot of people work incredibly hard at their YouTube content for years, never to see any real returns on it.

So the question is: how do you go about exploding your content and building an effective business model on YouTube? How can you become the next big YouTube sensation? And what if you don’t have a dashing camera smile?

This book is the answer. Here, you’re going to learn absolutely everything you need to know to practically guarantee your success on YouTube. You’ll learn not only how to build a massive audience in no time at all but also how to make the most of that audience – you’ll see how you can make money from advertisements and from sponsors, you’ll discover growth hacking tricks to accelerate your progress and you’ll see how to make an effective YouTube channel without even setting foot in front of the camera!

This book is your blueprint for YouTube success and if you follow it exactly, you’ll be giving yourself the very best chance of massive success on the platform. Read on and let’s do this!

Chapter 1: What Will Your Channel Be About?

When creating pretty much any online business – whether it’s an affiliate marketing business, a blog or anything else – the first question you will often need to ask yourself is what it’s going to be about. Or to use the correct internet business parlance: what is your niche?

A niche is a subject matter that will appeal to a specific audience. An example of a niche would be ‘sewing’. Sewing is something that appeals largely to older women but also to a lot of younger women these days who are interested in arts and crafts. And of course some men like sewing too – let’s not stereotype here! Either way, most people are either interested in sewing or they are not – thus it has a niche appeal and gives you a specific target audience.

You can go even more niche if you like though and choose ‘crocheting’ or ‘bird sewing patterns’ but the ‘more niche’ you go, the more you narrow your audience.

Another example of a niche is fitness. Now fitness is a much larger niche because it will appeal to a huge proportion of the population. Nearly everyone will want to get fitter at some point in their lives. It’s still a very specific subject matter that will talk to a very specific type of person but it is a much broader niche.

When it comes to internet business, the key often boils down to finding the right niche. And this will often mean finding a niche that has a broad appeal while not being overly competitive. The problem with the health and fitness niche is that you’re going to be going up against a huge number of other channels. Some big names in this space include the Hodge Twins, Athlean-X, Bodybuilding.com, Rob Riches and Eliot Hulse to name just a few.

Many of these channels have been around for many years and now have millions of subscribers and huge amounts of money to spend on marketing. That means that if you want to go up against them with a video on ‘how to get abs’, you might well struggle to get your video to a position where it will actually be seen and clicked on.

But on the other hand, a YouTube channel about crocheting cat patterns probably won’t get looked for very often and will quickly reach its peak, leaving you with nowhere else to go and a big cap on how much you can possibly earn.

So you need to choose the right topic and find that ‘sweet spot’.

How to Find Your Niche

So how do you find your niche? A good option is to start with the bigger niches and then to focus down and find yourself a smaller sub-niche within the niche.

So to start with, let’s look at what the very biggest niches are and what the most lucrative ones are.

In general internet marketing, the biggest niches are:

- Fitness

- Dating

- Self-Help

- Making Money

This is because all of these subject matters are things that have a hugely broad appeal and will appeal to practically everyone. If you have the marketing budget, then you can reach the biggest potential audience this way.

At the same time though, these niches are huge because they have something else going for them ‘value proposition’. That is to say, that each of them has something very big and important to offer people – an emotional hook that makes people passionate about a channel.

So for example, fitness isn’t really just about getting into shape: it’s about being more confident, sexier, healthier and happier thanks to your training and your diet. People hope that by watching these channels, they can turn their lives around.

The same goes for money and dating. These offer complete lifestyle changes – they let people find love or get more sex, they allow them to travel around the world and to wear nice watches. They have a real emotional hook and this means that the products sold in advertising can charge a lot more. People are much more willing to pay for a book that will make them a billion dollars than they are to pay for a book that can teach them how to sew! But YouTube is a weird place. And when you take a look around YouTube you’ll find that these regular rules only partly hold true. But there’s also actually a lot of other highly successful content here that is just… plain inane to be quite frank!

Some of the biggest topics on YouTube outside of those big internet marketing favorites are:

- Gaming

- Make-up tutorials

- Grooming/Style

- Travel

- Technology

- Fails

- Cats

- DIY

- Comedy

- Lifestyle vlogs

That’s a much more bizarre selection of niches and if you look around you’ll find thriving sub-cultures celebrating all kinds of other unusual things! There are some very popular YouTube channels for example that show people how to transform new Transformer toys! The thing to understand about YouTube is that it is much more visual than a blog or a social media channel. And this means that any subject matter that is more visual in nature and more dynamic is almost sure to be a success. Cat videos provide immediate laughs, while make-up tutorials show women how to look their most beautiful and have the proof that it works right there on the screen.

And people enjoy watching inane things like vlogs about the everyday lives of YouTube stars because – believe it or not – it almost feels like company. People enjoy watching the YouTube channels of people who are like the coolest friend that they’d love to hang out with. YouTube is such a direct and personal format that it’s a great way to create almost a relationship with your audience and to thereby make a big impact on them.

This works even better if you can sell a kind of lifestyle that they find desirable and thereby allow them to live vicariously. A lot of people watch the lifestyle vlogs of rich, attractive people because they want to live those kinds of lifestyles themselves – of course a lot of it is fabricated!

Meanwhile, watching someone else play a video game and provide a ‘commentary’ can be a way to recreate the feeling of hanging out with mates while playing Goldeneye on the N64 in your youth – and at the same time you’re getting news and footage of new games you might be interested in.

So how do you bring all these disparate elements together into something that will really work for you? That’s a question only you can answer but a good way to start is to take a broad niche that has a wide appeal and then focus down. For example, you can go with fitness but find your own way into that industry by making your channel all about fitness for the over 50s. This is a brilliant way to offer something a bit different and a bit unique and thereby to stand out from the crowd while still having that value proposition and that universal appeal.

Another thing to always remember is to be true to yourself. Choose the niche that you are most comfortable with and then you’ll find you have much more to say on the matter, you come across as much more passionate and interested in your own topic and you’re better able to really inspire your audience to listen to you!

I can’t tell you which niche you need to pick but using all this information, hopefully you can come up with something that will have a big appeal while also being true to who you are.

Chapter 2: How to Make Money on YouTube

But before you dive into your content creation with both feet, let’s rewind for a second and assess exactly what this will involve and what it means to be a YouTuber. How does one go about making money on YouTube? How much can you expect to make?

It’s important that you understand the business model here as that is of course going to affect the way that you approach your content creation and your general approach to making money online.

Advertising on YouTube

The main way in which you make money on YouTube then is via advertising. Google has its own advertising platform and it uses this to allow companies and brands to pay to show their adverts on your channel. This is a form of AdSense for those who know what that is, which means it’s PPC. In plain English, this means that the advertising uses a ‘Pay Per Click’ system, although you can also get paid when you get a certain number of complete views.

In other words, you aren’t getting paid a ‘flat fee’ for your advertising or getting paid per month. Rather, you are getting paid each time the advert is shown and each time someone clicks on it. Of course not everyone who comes to your channel is going to watch the adverts all the way through or is going to click on them – but you can generally assume by pure statistics that you will get a certain amount (which is called your ‘CTR’ or ‘Click Through Rate’). This then means that for every thousand views on a video, you’re likely to get paid a certain amount of average.

Modern Podcasting MRR Ebook With Audio

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A lot of people are listening to podcasts these days. Are you one of them? When people discover a podcast that they really like they will tune in all of the time and consume all of the new podcasts that the creator publishes. This is an excellent opportunity to make money.

Podcasts are very convenient. They are available in MP3 format and listeners can use their smartphones or tablets to listen to them. You can listen to a great podcast in your car but you cannot watch videos when you are driving. People also listen to podcasts when they are working out, doing the shopping, travelling on trains and buses – in fact anywhere!

A lot of marketers try to create successful podcasts but fail to achieve this. They make a lot of mistakes and don’t have the patience and determination to see the project through. In this guide we will tell you how to avoid these mistakes and create successful podcasts that listeners will love.

This is the most important secret to successful podcasting. If you choose the wrong niche then you are doomed to failure right from the start and all of your efforts will have been for nothing.

You need to choose a niche where there is a good demand for content and there is enough content opportunities for you to create a number of different podcasts for a long time. The commercial opportunities that exist in the niche are also important.

You will read everywhere that you need to choose a niche for podcasting that you are passionate about. While it is a good idea in principal you need to test whether there is demand for the niche before you go ahead with it.

The easiest way to do this for free is to use the Google Keyword Planner. All you need is a free Google Adwords account and you can access the planner. By using the Google Keyword Planner you will be able to see how many people are searching for information on your niche using the Google search engine.

When you use the Google Keyword Planner you will also receive suggestions for related keywords.

This will really help you to determine the different subjects for your podcasts. Start by using a seed keyword e.g. “dog training” and see how many searches there are per month. If there are many thousands then you are on to a winner.

There are a number of ways that you can monetize your podcasts which we will discuss later. A good way is to recommend products and services that are a good fit for the subject of your podcast.

So if your podcast was about email marketing for example you could recommend your own course (if you have one) or someone else’s as an affiliate.

It is worth checking to see the level of commercial opportunity for your niche ideas. Go over to Clickbank.com and see if there are any digital products for your niche. You can also check for physical product opportunities by searching on Amazon.com.

The ultimate niche for podcasting is one that you are passionate about and has great demand, a lot of different subjects for podcast creation and good commercial opportunities. If you decide to go with a niche that you are not passionate about then you can learn everything that you can about it and develop a passion for it.

Having a passion for your niche is extremely important with podcasting. Listeners will be able to detect the passion, or lack of it, in your voice. This is pretty difficult to fake so a genuine interest is always required.

Take your time to come up with niche ideas and validate them all using the Google Keyword Planner.

You can start by listing your interests and passions and then adding subjects that you are good at or have skills in. For instance you may have mastered a particular skill through your work that you can speak about as an expert.

You can also visit other websites for niche ideas. Here are some good ones to take a look at:

• Clickbank.com

• Amazon.com

• Magazines.com

• Dummies.com

When you go to these websites take a look at the various categories and sub categories for inspiration. If there are products being sold on these websites then this is a pretty strong indicator that there is demand for information in the niche. Always check this using the Google Keyword Planner.

It is absolutely not a good idea to use the microphone in your laptop, smartphone or the one that is attached to those cheap headphones for your podcast recordings. They tend to be very inferior and the sound quality of your recordings will be very poor. When people listen to your podcasts they will give up on them quickly and leave negative reviews.

You must invest in a good quality microphone for your recordings. Borrow one if you have to. When people listen to your podcasts they will judge them on the content that you are providing and the sound quality. Never create podcasts with poor sound quality. There is only so much that you can do with an audio editing application.

When you are thinking about the equipment that you need for podcasting you need to think long term. If you are going to provide mostly solo recordings then go for a USB microphone like the Blue Yetti that you can plug into your computer. If you want to invite guests to your podcasting studio then invest in XLR dynamic microphones.

Whether you are going to buy a number of good quality microphones or just one, you should always get a pop filter and a stand or boom arm as well. A pop filter will make your recordings sound a lot better and the stand will help you with positioning the microphone so that you can record your voice properly.

For a mini podcast studio you should get a mixer and a digital recorder. You will also need boom arms for all of the microphones. This is quite an investment so you may want to progress to this later on once your podcasts are successful.

We also recommend that you invest in some good quality headphones. Yes you can record a podcast without using headphones but you won’t know how good or bad it sounds until you play back the recording. With headphones you can monitor sound quality in real time.

You will need a good audio editing application for your recordings. It is inevitable that you are going to make mistakes especially in your first few recordings. Fortunately there are two really good audio editing suites that are totally free for Windows and Mac computers:

1. Windows users can use Audacity

2. Mac users can use Garageband

These applications will take care of all of your audio editing needs. There are others that cost money but they are really not necessary to get going. You can easily add intro and outro music, sound effects and more with these two audio editing suites. When you are done with your recording you can mix everything down and create an MP3 file.

Healthier You PLR Ebook

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CHAPTER 1: INTRODUCTION ABOUT HEALTHY LIFESTYLE

A healthier, happier and more successful you

You can become a healthier, happier and more successful person by making a few simple changes to your lifestyle. You will have to make changes to the overall you, not just change the amount of exercise you do or your diet. The secret to achieving happiness and a healthier you is to balance your body and mind in harmony, it is only when we are balanced in physical health, mental and spiritual that we are truly healthy.

If we are healthy then we are happier and can reach success more easily in life, here are some ways you can bring back harmony and balance to your life. Exercise is an essential part, it helps to tone our body, keep our heart and lungs healthy and detoxifies.

Exercise can be anything from more vigorous routines such as aerobics to simply walking, pick your favorite activity and set aside a specific time of day and commit yourself to devoting a half-hour per day towards getting your body back into shape.

Eating right is the next essential step to maintaining a well-balanced life; our bodies need the right amount of vitamins, nutrients and minerals to work at its best. Making changes to our diet is easy, keep away from fast foods which contain a lot of saturated fats and sugar and start including more whole grains, chicken, fish, plenty of green vegetables and try to eat fresh fruit instead of juice when available.

Along with making changes to your diet you should include supplements such as vitamins, nutrients and minerals. Modern farming methods strip many of our foods of the minerals our bodies require and now just provide us with the basic nutrients.

Due to this we might be lacking in certain minerals and vitamins, by supplementing your diet with vitamin and mineral supplements we can ensure we still get all the vital minerals, nutrients and vitamins we need in our daily diet. Reducing the amount of stress we have in our life plays an important part in how we are able to cope with it.

Stress can do much damage to our body and mind and has been linked with “burnout”, fatigue, sleep problems, depression and it lowers our immune system. Learning techniques on how to cope with stress and worry are essential to keeping yourself balanced and full of energy.

There are a wide variety of techniques from simple breathing exercises which can be done anywhere, at anytime, to yoga which is a full system for relaxation and de-stressing to meditation.

There are many books, DVDS and CDS available on the subject or there are courses you can attend. Lastly but by no means the least important is keeping life fun, doing something which you enjoy doing and makes you feel relaxed and happy each day.

No you are not being selfish by taking time out each day just for yourself, this time is essential. It is just as important as exercising, eating right and reducing stress, your time could be spent doing a hobby or pastime that you enjoy, sitting quietly and reading, taking a hot bubble bath while listening to your favorite music or spending quality time with your family or friends. It can be anything as long as it’s something you like to do and enjoying doing.

12 Tips for better health

The biggest step to aiming towards better health is admitting the fact that you need to make changes towards becoming healthier and fitter. Here are some tips to help you improve your health and help you to reach a new and improved you.

1. Make it a life goal to obtain a healthier outlook on life which will undoubtedly lead to a healthier you, if you are determined to reach a better state of health, making it a reality will be so much easier.

2. Support your new way of thinking by learning everything you can about ways of reaching better health and living a healthier lifestyle. You can use the internet, books, DVDS, clubs, gyms and support groups to your benefit, knowing all you can about healthy living gives you a great base to work from.

3. You have to start somewhere so start by taking a look at your kitchen and reorganizing in preparation for your new way of life. Reorganize your kitchen cabinets, cupboards and refrigerator to ensure that there are no signs of the old you and all the signs of the things that will help you in your new lifestyle.

4. Replace old food with your new healthier choice and don’t forget to purchase any small appliances which you will need to support your healthier way of eating, such as blenders and food weighing scales.

5. Get a large planner calendar, pin it up in your kitchen and mark the day when you choose to begin your new lifestyle and stick to it no matter what.
6. From day one keep a journal, this can either be a traditional one or use your computer.

You should include all thoughts and feelings about your new ways along with all the changes you see about yourself. This is essential to look back on to see the positive changes that are occurring due to your positive outlook and changes you have made.

7. Positive thoughts and self talk or affirmations are a necessity; they will give you confidence at the beginning and will continue to take you through the tough times which will often occur during the early changes.

8. Along with changes to your diet you will also have to make changes to the amount of exercise you do per day, while good healthy food is essential, exercise is also just as important to help ward off the onset of diseases such as heart disease, as well as helping us to firm up our body or lose a few pounds.

9. Give up any bad habits such as smoking or drinking, you will never reach your optimal peak of health while you are puffing away on cigarettes or drinking on a regular basis.

10. Make sure that you get the recommended 5 portions of fruit and veggies per day on your new regime, fruit and veggies are packed full of essential vitamins.

11. Make sure you learn ways to eliminate as much stress from your lifestyle as you possibly can, there are many ways to do this with one of them sure to be suitable for your situation.

12. Cut out excess salt, sugar and fatty foods from your diet, this will effectively lower your cholesterol and blood pressure.

Notes on Nutrition

The best place to begin taking notes about nutrition is with the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA). The USDA offers recommendations about what they find to be healthy eating-related habits for the general public. And their information covers these main areas of focus: nutrition pyramid, needed nutrients, weight management, physical fitness and food safety.

Nutrition Pyramid

The USDA has revised dietary guidelines and lists a food pyramid with color scheme to help people eat in a healthy manner.

Needed Nutrients

The USDA advises people to drink and eat a wide variety of nutrient-dense beverages and foods from the basic food groups they note in their nutrition pyramid.
They also suggest limiting alcohol, salt, added sugars, cholesterol, saturated and trans fats. And they recommend following plans like the Dietary Approaches to Stop Hypertension (DASH) Eating Plan or their USDA Food Guide. Weight Management

The general weight focus of the USDA stresses that people strive to maintain body weight in a healthy range, balancing calories from beverages and foods with those expended. And to help manage weight control as aging occurs, people are to gradually decrease the amounts of foods and beverages consumed and increase physical fitness.

Physical Fitness

The USDA desires people to regularly partake in physical activity while decreasing sedentary activities in order to promote not only healthy bodies but overall general health and psychological well-being. Optimum activity is targeted at around 30 -90 minutes minimum a day of moderate to intense physical, depending upon weight status, age and eating habits. For even more health benefits, a combination of either more intense activity and / or longer periods of activity is advised for most persons instead of just 30 minutes, checking with healthcare providers first for approval.

Key areas of focus for physical fitness are stretching exercises for increased flexibility, cardiovascular conditioning and calisthenics or resistance exercises to improve endurance and muscles.