The food pyramid, that 3-decade-old backbone of grade-school nutrition lessons, ... trampling of the landscape and need for massive amounts of water, ...

After four years of work and $2.4 million in spending, the U.S. government ripped the lid of secrecy Tuesday off its new symbol for healthy eating. Replacing the beloved but ignored food pyramid ...

Federal officials are replacing the food pyramid with a full plate — and while experts say that the new approach is an imperfect solution, it's a vast improvement on the much-maligned My Pyramid.

What America's food pyramid has to do with the hot topic of climate change. Skip to ... trampling of the landscape and need for massive amounts of water,” is contributing to the global ...

Nutritionists have criticized the U.S. Department of Agriculture's most recent food guide, MyPyramid, released in 2005. The agency says its working on a new, improved version. But don't expect to ...

(Image credit: Alan Eilander) Strange designs. In 2011, the United States replaced its iconic food pyramid with a plate, but food pyramids still dominate the landscape: Out of the 70 countries ...

The food pyramid has been the US Department of Agriculture's guide to healthy eating since it was introduced in 1992. As obesity has become a bigger problem in America, the USDA felt it was time ...

June 2, 2011— -- First lady Michelle Obama, Surgeon General Regina Benjamin and Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack today unveiled a new food icon to replace the familiar Food Pyramid called ...

The “Double Food-Environmental Pyramid” was designed and launched by the Barilla Center for Food and Nutrition in 2010. Researchers from Italy wanted to combine nutritional guidelines with ...

WHY IT WAS INVENTED. Like other countries around the world, the healthy eating food pyramid was introduced to Australia in the early 1980s. Based on a Swedish “eat more and eat less” model ...