This week the panel of Mannie Barling, Ashley F. Brooks and Simon Barrett will be analyzing the recent move by the FDA to dump the ‘food pyramid’ in favor of a more modern version. The ‘food pyramid’ has been with us for decades. It is seen in just about every school in the nation, and virtually every doctors office or other medical facility known to man. A common depiction is this one:
Apparently the FDA have decided that the Food Pyramid is too complex. In its place is the spanky new food plate.
I have to admit that I do rather like this depiction of the new plate:
I just can’t wait to sink my teeth into this delicious offering. A small piece of anemic meat, some obviously canned green beans, a slice of dry bread, and for desert a few slices of canned Mandarin Oranges likely oosing some high quality High Fructose Corn Syrup sauce. Yum Yum.
Of course it could be worse. The FDA could have caved in completely and used this as the new poster child.
I do hope that you will join us tomorrow at 1pm eastern to listen to the very latest in health and nutrition news. The listen live link is here.
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1 user commented in " Surviving The 21st Century – Out With The Food Pyramid "
Follow-up comment rss or Leave a TrackbackIt’s not so much the complexity of the pyramid system, it’s the fact that it provides terrible ratios for the modern age and is part of the reason people are fat. Most people see that and then gorge themselves on way more carbohydrates than they need for their activity levels. It’s not the old days where people were physically active all day long and needed most of their calories to come from starchy carbs. At this point vegetables should be by far the dominant source of nutrients. Next in line should be proteins and then everything else. Even as an amateur fighter I don’t need to follow the food guide pyramid and when I come even close I just feel horrible.
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