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Article #238: Food Pyramid

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For those of you who don't know, the food The new food pyramid however, is
pyramid is a carefully drawn up plan of completely different. Apart from the fact
exactly what the human body needs that it's become three dimensional and
nutritionally. That is, the food pyramid has a figure climbing up the side of it,
is a guide to help us determine what we this new food guide has also eliminated
should eat everyday. It doesn't have a the horizontal lines. Instead we can now
set menu of food that you need to eat per see lines starting from the tip of the
day. All it has is a guide that can help pyramid and radiating downward.
you plan your meals so that you get the Each of these sections are only as big,
correct amount of nutrients into your or small, as the earlier food pyramid
system every day. sections were. Only with this new food
The food pyramid will show you the path pyramid, you now know that although you
to keeping yourself fit and healthy need to eat some food types more than
through a steady and healthy diet. Up others, even within those food groups
until recently that's all the food there are some foods that you should only
pyramid did. In 2005 however, the food eat in moderation.
pyramid as we know it was changed Additionally you'll also find that your
forever, and a more up-to-date food new food pyramid is color coded. So
pyramid took its place. Now you'll find you'll get an Orange stripe representing
that instead of the two-dimensional food grains; a Green stripe for vegetables; a
pyramid we're so used to, it's become Red stripe for fruits; a Yellow stripe
more three-dimensional. To show the added denoting how much fats and oils you
benefits that regular exercise will have should have; a Blue stripe for the milk
on you, a figure running up a flight of and dairy products that you're allowed;
stairs on the side of the food pyramid and a Purple stripe showing you the
has been added. quantities of meats, fish, beans and
Earlier if you looked at the food pyramid suchlike that you should eat in a day.
you would have seen horizontal lines With six colored stripes denoting the
spanning the food pyramid with the food quantities of food you should take, and a
that we eat the most of, starting at the figure of a healthy person running up a
bottom. The food that we should eat the flight of stairs on the side of it, this
least amount of, could be found at the new food pyramid is definitely better
top. This is the food pyramid that we all than the old one, and can help you learn
know about and the one that was shown to more about better eating habits, and a
us when we were in school. healthy lifestyle.






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