Dietary quality has a vital role in the prevention of chronic disease. In 2005, the US Department of Agriculture released a new food guide, MyPyramid, because the previous pyramid was in substantial ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The pyramid guide to healthy eating that many Americans grew up with has been scrapped, and in its place the Obama administration is serving a dinner plate icon sliced up by ...

Tufts University researchers have updated their Food Guide Pyramid for Older Adults to correspond with the USDA food pyramid, now known as MyPyramid. The Modified MyPyramid for Older Adults continues ...

There was an article in the Lawrence Journal-World last week that focused on the USDA-Tufts Food Pyramid for “70-plus” adults. I’m a little confused by it. It said that we should have three or more ...

Washington –Nearly 2000 stores in 17 states will make space for a new entrant, The Food Pyramid Guide, purported to be a guidance to people to buy the right kind of food. The novel rainbow-colored ...

We were interested to read over the weekend in the Washington Post that the demise of the Department of Agriculture's food pyramid – the government’s visual guide to healthful eating -- might be nigh.

Coupled with a trip to Healthy Harold’s van (if you were lucky), most of us can trace our first lessons in nutrition and what not to eat down to a pyramid poster. But surprisingly, the healthy eating ...