Curious that this is being posted in the......cafe! 
Ya know....this is NOT JUST ME....Back when this whole "food pyarmid of eating" was started a lot of teachers said ....what?
And now here we are back where it all started fourty years ago.
I'm not knocking this administration, it could have been the previous or the next....but here we are: fourty years later - full circle.
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/03/business/03plate.html
I use a scan from my mother's cookbook of the fourties but this was the general idea...balance your meals... (this is not my scan but close)
And here is the new picture:
One question that I have to ask though is that if the powers that be think that we are so @#$%^ stupid that we have it beaten into our dear little heads to "eat healthy",.... then we probably need more than some kind of abstract word like "grains" in a pretty pie shape.
Wouldn't the original PICTURE of the foods for all us dolt's be more informative?
But also we must not forget the FIVE basic food groups:
This all got started btw back in 1902, here is a small history of USDA's attempts to get people to eat right with a scan of the original book's front cover and how it lead to the food pyarmid of eating.
http://www.healthy-eating-politics.c...d-pyramid.html
woodsmoke
Ya know....this is NOT JUST ME....Back when this whole "food pyarmid of eating" was started a lot of teachers said ....what?
And now here we are back where it all started fourty years ago.
I'm not knocking this administration, it could have been the previous or the next....but here we are: fourty years later - full circle.
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/03/business/03plate.html
The new design was conceived as a crucial part of Mrs. Obama’s campaign against obesity, by reminding consumers about the basics of a healthy diet.
And here is the new picture:
One question that I have to ask though is that if the powers that be think that we are so @#$%^ stupid that we have it beaten into our dear little heads to "eat healthy",.... then we probably need more than some kind of abstract word like "grains" in a pretty pie shape.
Wouldn't the original PICTURE of the foods for all us dolt's be more informative?
But also we must not forget the FIVE basic food groups:
This all got started btw back in 1902, here is a small history of USDA's attempts to get people to eat right with a scan of the original book's front cover and how it lead to the food pyarmid of eating.
http://www.healthy-eating-politics.c...d-pyramid.html
woodsmoke
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