Food Pyramid : Understanding It

Below about understanding the food pyramid.

Milk:

Look for calcium-rich foods. Buy low-fat or fat-free milk products. Consume lactose-free products or find other calcium sources (like oatmeal, orange juice, tofu, and white beans), if you don’t or can’t drink milk.

Meat and beans:

Eat a variety of meats, including fish, and other high-protein food, like beans, nuts, and seeds. Choose low-fat or lean meats and poultry. Bake, broil, grill, but never fry, your meat.

Vegetables:

Eat a variety of vegetables. Eat mostly dark green and/or orange vegetables.

Fruits:

Eat a variety of fruit. Look for fresh, or sugarless frozen, canned, or dried fruit — each is good for you. Avoid fruit juices; they hide a lot of sugar.

Grains:

Eat at least 3 ounces of whole-grain bread, cereal, crackers, rice, or pasta every day. Look for the words “whole wheat” or “whole grain” in the ingredient list.

Eat Better and Change Yourself

Today's about the USDA food pyramid.

MyPyramid is the educational tool developed and released by the USDA to help customers make healthier food choices and physical activity that leads to a healthy lifestyle and diet are in line with the Manual for the United States.

Food groups are represented by six different colors:


* Orange – grains
* Green – vegetables
* Red – fruits
* Yellow – oils
* Blue – milk products
* Purple – meats and beans

The foods in each group must be eaten each day. If you look at the pyramids, the wider range of foods (cereals and vegetables that is) showing that the food is more than the group that should be eaten. Portion is important, therefore, not excessive - even healthy foods have calories remember. According to MyPyramid, the average person should eat three ounces of grain products, two cups of fruit, 2 1 / 2 cups of vegetables every day. The oil should be used sparingly.

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