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

(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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Unlike MyPlate, which the United States Department of Agriculture adopted in 2011 (and is in the picture below), the clever new pyramid (which is pictured above) not only divides and ranks food ...

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 ...

Last week, first lady Michelle Obama and the U.S. Department of Agriculture announced the new "MyPlate" design -- which will replace the well-known food pyramid -- to guide U.S. residents' eating ...