The Healthy of Food Pyramid

Above about the healthy of Food Pyramid.

The Food Guide Pyramid was created more than ten years by the United States Department of Agriculture. The food pyramid illustrates what the USDA said were the elements of a healthy food pyramid diet. The food Pyramid was taught in schools, the media and brochures, cereal boxes and food labels. It seems that the last word on everything that we really comer.

Food guide pyramid is a fable. Not the way to a healthy diet. We were told today the food guide pyramid is based on weak evidence. Has not changed over the year to reflect major advances in understanding the relationship between diet and health.

Recently, the USDA withdrew the old food guide pyramid and replaced it with my pyramid, a new system of symbols and orientation. This revision is primarily the result of the food pyramid his side.

Good news about the new food pyramid :

• For the poor and buried in pyramids.

The bad news about food pyramid.

• The new food pyramid does not give us enough information to help us make informed decisions about our diet and health in the long term.

• We continue to recommened that are not essential for good health.

• The amount of food recommended in May also be harmful to our health.

A new food pyramid guide published in early January 2005:

• We will continue to focus on weight control;

• fats were considered bad. The new guidelines emphasize low and to limit our saturated fats. No hay limit artificially low in fat. The last piece of advice that is recommended to arrive between 20% and 35% of calories from fat. The new food pyramid guidelines also recognize the potential health benefits of polyunsaturated fatty acids and monounsaturated fats;

• complex carbohydrates is a term used in the past that has little biological significance;

• New food pyramid americans recommend limiting intake of sugar and stressles benefits of whole grains;

• The guidelines suggest eating half the grains as refined starch, refined starch, but acting like or sugar, add empty calories, have adverse metabolic effects and increase the risk of diabetes and heart.