The Food Guide Pyramid

The Food Guide Pyramid is one manner forsymbol is trying to pass on:
Americans to read how to eat healthy. A rainbow ofA person should eat a wide variety of foods. A
colored, vertical stripes stands for the five foodbalanced diet is one that makes use of all the food
groups plus fats and oils. Here is what the colorsgroups. From another perspective, have foods from
stand for:orange = grains green = vegetables red =every color, every day.
fruits yellow = fats and oils blue = milk and dairyWe should eat less of some foods, and extra of
products purple = meat, beans, fish, and nutsothers. You can see that the bands for meat and
The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) modifiedprotein are purple and oils are yellow and less
the pyramid in spring 2005 because they wanted topronounced than the other ones. The reason is
do a more enhanced job of narrating to Americansbecause you need less of those varieties of foods
how to be healthy. The agency later released athan your need of fruits, vegetables, grains, and dairy
special variation for children. On this website you willfoods.
observe a girl ascending the staircase up the side ofYour family also can see the bands start out fatter
the pyramid. That is an example of showing kids howand get skinnier as they approach the top side. That
important it is to exercise and be active every day.is designed to show you that not all foods are made
From another perspective, play a lot! The stairs areas good as others, even within a fit food group like
also a way of showing that you can make changes infruit. Sometimes, apple pie might be in that thin
stages to be more healthy. One step at a time,section of the fruit band because it has a lot of
understand?added sugar and fat. A whole apple would be turn up
The Pyramid Speaks to us in several ways. Let us allin the broad part for you can eat more of those in a
confront a few of the additional topics this newfit eating regimen.