Healthy Eating Plate & Healthy Eating Pyramid

An image is value a thousand words, and that is why nutritionists use symbols and shapes to answer the question, What should I eat? For nearly 2 decades, the U.S. government distilled it is nutrition suggestion into pyramids. These efforts did not accurately show people what makes up a healthy diet. Their suggestion were based on out-of-date science & influenced by people with business interests in the messages the icons sent. Current year, the U.S. government scrapped its My Pyramid icon in favor of the fruit & vegetable rich MyPlate an improvement, yet one that still does not go far enough to show people how to make the healthiest choices.

There is having some better alternatives: the new Healthy Eating Plate & the Healthy Eating Pyramid equally built by faculty members in the Department of Nutrition at the Harvard School of Public Health, in combination with colleagues at Harvard Health Publications. The well Eating Plate fixes the flaws in USDA’s MyPlate, presently as the Healthy Eating Pyramid rectifies the mistakes of the USDA’s food pyramids. Mutually the Healthy Eating Plate and the Healthy Eating Pyramid are based on the latest science about how our food, drink & activity choices affect our health and are unaffected by businesses and organizations with a stake in their messages.   

The Healthy Eating Pyramid is an easy, reliable guide to choosing a healthy diet. Its foundation is daily exercise & weight control, since these 2 related elements strongly influence your chances of staying healthy. The well Eating Pyramid builds from there, presenting that you should eat more foods from the bottom part of the pyramid (vegetables, complete grains) & less from the top (refined grains, red meat, potatoes, salt and sugary drinks).  

When it is time for dinner, most of us eat off of a plate. So think something new Healthy Eating Plate as blueprint for a usual meal. Fill half your plate with some colorful vegetables, the more varied the better & fruits. Save a quarter of your plate for whole grains. A strong source of protein such as poultry, fish, beans or nuts, can make up the rest. The glass bottle is a prompt to use healthy oils, like olive & canola, in cooking on salad and at the table. Full your meal with a cup of water, or if you like, tea or coffees with little or no sugar.