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.

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

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.

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 ...

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 ...

The Food Pyramid: Your Take-Home Message Right Now If, in fact, there is one new message today's pyramid is shouting the loudest, it's that we should not view a healthy diet in terms of food alone.

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.

The food pyramid has long been a source of fluctuating guidance around ... The nutritional advice was generally that Americans should consume 11 servings daily of complex carbohydrates, which ...