Cereal box readers likely recognize the Food Guide Pyramid, a graphic designed by the US Department of Agriculture (USDA) as an easy-to-follow guide to healthy eating. The pyramid's designers thought ...

The Daily Beast asked some foodies and nutrition experts about whether MyPlate is an improvement over the old food pyramid, and what they think it still gets wrong. See their responses below.

The federal government unveiled its new food icon, MyPlate, to serve as a reminder to help consumers make healthier food choices on June 2, 2011.

But in the Food Pyramid, fats have the lowest daily recommendation. Similarly, whole grains have been long known to be ...

Hot on the heels of new Recommended Daily Allowances comes a new Food Pyramid. Phil ‘The Food Pharoah’ Lempert offers a 101. The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) unveiled its new “food ...

In a nutshell – 75 percent of daily food intake should be from plant-based foods. However, the question of daily caloric intake, portion sizes, fat intake and energy expenditure are not represented.

Typical of the pyramid's shortcomings is that some people thought the graphic's recommendation of 6 to 11 daily servings from the grains group, such as bread, meant they could have anywhere from ...

The food pyramid was distributed widely in schools, textbooks, and more, with seemingly helpful advice: the daily consumption of six to eight servings of bread, cereal, rice, and pasta; three to ...

Four days after some Americans celebrated the 50th birthday of McDonald’s, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) celebrated the beginning of its new and diverse food guide pyramid on April 19.