Choose My Plate includes common sense information and it is also customizable and interactive. You can enter your personal information (age, height, weight, gender, activity level) and the site will tell you how many calories you should eat and gives suggestions for serving sizes of foods you should be eating at meal time and for snacks.
This is a great resource for people looking to eat a more healthful diet or trying to lose weight. It is based on scientific research and includes a lot of information you have probably heard before. It brings it all together in one place without advertisements. I have looked at and tried to use other websites like prevention.com, self.com, or doctoroz.com but they have so many commercial tie-ins the sites are visually distracting and leave you with a sense that you are the real product being sold to all the marketers affiliated with the sites. I like choosemyplate.gov for it’s simple design and clear message.