Posted on 04/20/2005 2:41:30 PM PDT by Willie Green
A new symbol was unveiled yesterday to help Americans make better food choices. While it's still a pyramid, it might as well have been shaped as a lightning rod for all of the criticism it attracted.
"MyPyramid" was revealed by Agriculture Secretary Mike Johanns, who referred consumers to a Web site that kept crashing, further frustrating skeptics who had criticized its designers' close ties to the food industry from the very beginning.
Design experts and dietitians decried the pyramid's ambiguity, and pretty much everyone cursed the Web site that seemed as technologically advanced as the Internet was in 1992, when the first pyramid was revealed.
(Excerpt) Read more at post-gazette.com ...
One-Size-Fits-All Food Pyramid Is Replaced
USDA Revamps Food Pyramid to Unveil New Symbol
U.S. Government Updates Diet Rules for Next Food Pyramid
Whatever happened to simply eating a "well-balanced" meal???
Just eat until you die and be happy!
…everyone cursed the Web site that seemed as technologically advanced as the Internet was in 1992…
Mmmmmmmmm Fooood pyramid
/drool
I'm so confused. I eat straight from the poster that I've had hanging in my kitchen for years and years. But now they're telling me it's no good! So what am I supposed to eat until the new poster arrives? I'm getting hungry and I don't know what to do.
LOL. I suggest eating the poster.
yep. I am a meat eater and I will not change!!
I can't! There's no "poster" group listed on the poster. And if there werre, it would be outdated anyway.
How many posters a day do the new guidelines allow for?
This is getting serious. I'm starting to feel euphoric!
The new pyramid is pitiful. They should've used a pie chart (seriously).
Just remember to get several servings per day from the four basic food groups: salt, fat, sugar, and preservatives.
Actually, it's a truncated conical section
I would have expected that site to go to the Social Security Administration.
You mean that people actually tried to go to the stupid web site? WHAT LOSERS!!! Buwahaha!
Good one. LOL!
But that's part of the problem, Nestle said.
"This is the philosophy of this administration -- it's all about personal responsibility," she said.
So where's the problem?
I just tried to access it - it only offers the options of entering your weight, age & amount of daily exercise...so it is not very customizable. In any case, it times out every time I submit the information, so I guess it IS broke.
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