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Remember learning about the Food Pyramid in school? I remember being ten years old, looking at the 1992 Food Pyramid chart and wondering which category my Dunk-a Roos, Fun Dip, and Fruit Rolls Ups would fall into. I never figured it out, or cared enough to ask, thus making the very point of the food pyramid meaningless to me.   THEN, in 2005 the government issued a new look for the food pyramid, which honest to goodness, was WAY more confusing. You expect people to remember what all those colors stand for?

 

These Food pyramids just do not work in my opinion, which is why the government is always creating a new one. In fact, yet another food pyramid was just released Thursday June 30th, 2011. Take a look at it.  Continue reading “The New “Food Pyramid” is a Plate” »