Bid a Expensive Goodbye to These Food Pyramids
Kamis, 02 Juni 2011 by Android Blackberry
Pyramids are out. Plates are in.
The Obama administration is ditching the long-standing food pyramid that tells us what types of food to eat regularly - and what to eat sparingly. In its location is actually a new kind of visual aid professionals say are going to be less difficult to realize. Starting Thursday morning, we’ll be looking at a dinner plate loaded with a day’s worth of healthy food.
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| Bid a Expensive Goodbye to These Food Pyramids 1992 |
Appears very simple sufficient, ideal? Out with the tired old triangle, in with a much more literal representation of healthy eating.
But if past adjustments are any indication, the switch to a plated program could cost taxpayers a lot.
Already, the U.S.D.A. has racked up a $2 million bill developing and promoting the plate logo, based on the New York Times. That price covered study, focus groups along with the creation of a Web internet site - and it will likely transfer to publicity efforts within the initial year of the healthy-eating campaign.
This will be the third food logo the U.S.D.A has floated inside the last two decades. The first, in 1992, was a pyramid divided into quadrants, with size and hierarchical ranking representing the quantities that needs to be included in a daily diet plan
About $1 million in study funding was spent creating and redesigning the pyramid, which replaced a “food wheel” used to teach nutrition for decades prior to.
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| Bid a Expensive Goodbye to These Food Pyramids 2005 |
A new, less prioritized version was trotted out in 2005, looking a bit like a a rainbow slide. Grains, fruits, vegetables, dairy and meat had been represented by colored stripes, and a figure climbing up stairs was supposed to represent exercise.
The U.S.D.A. paid about $2.five million of the study and development of that pyramid.
The new plate logo resembles those employed by other governments. In China, a “food pagoda” sorts foods into five levels based on importance. In Guatemala, a cooking pot functions photos of wholesome foods
