There are very few government offices that “get it right” and the USDA is no exception. When the USDA first launched the food pyramid in 1972 it met with limited success. The revised food pyramid launched in 2005 failed miserably. This in turn prompted the nutrition experts at the Harvard School of Public Health to redesign the food pyramid into something more useful and understandable by the public. They renamed their version of the food pyramid as the Healthy Eating Food Pyramid.
The base of the Healthy Eating Food Pyramid is reserved for daily physical activities.
For the first time ever, public dietary advice was linked to physical activity because research clearly indicated a strong link between food, good health and physical activity (exercise). The scholars at Harvard School of Public Health established that exercise and weight control are interlinked and went on to createthe simple weight control formulae that was easily understood by all, which is: Weight change = calories in – calories out.
The new Healthy Eating Food Pyramid devised by Harvard School of Public Health comprised of 7 essential bricks. These were:
- Fruits and vegetables be given a place of pride on the plate.
Humans digest fruits and vegetables more easily than they do meat, sweets and fats. Also, fruits and vegetables provide the bulk of our daily dietary requirements.- Eat whole grain foods for carbs and energy.
- The Healthy Eating Food Pyramid has placed fats and oils in between vegetable and grains.
- Another prominently mentioned food group in the Healthy Eating Food Pyramid is nuts, beans, tofu and seeds.
- No Food Pyramid can be complete without a place for eggs, fish and poultry.
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