New Food Pyramid

Food Pyramid

Better food habits can help you be healthier. The American Heart Association recommends that you eat a wide variety of foods daily from all of the basic food groups.

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The Children's Food Pyramid

Food Pyramid

Although the USDA food pyramid has been around since 1992, until 2005 there was not a special children's food pyramid. It was important to design a food-pyramid for kids because they have different nutritional needs to adults. Children are growing and they need more nutrition for this aspect than do adults. The original food pyramid was designed to try and combat the increasing rates of death through heart disease and other ailments caused by bad diets and lack of nutrition knowledge.

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The Food Pyramid

The food pyramid, which is updated in the United States once every five years (the last update was in 2005) is basically a guide which tells you what your nutrition levels should be. The original food pyramid was first printed in 1992 to replace one of the oldest systems of food classification. Although the newer food pyramid is taking into account a lot more in terms of exactly what foods you should be eating it still has quite a bit of way to go till it is anyway perfect.

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