Food Pyramid
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The food pyramid is a carefully crafted plan of exactly what the human body needs nutritionally. That is, the food pyramid is a guide to help us determine what we should feed ourselves everyday. It doesn’t have a set menu of food that you need to eat per day. All it has is a guide that can help you plan your meals so that you get the correct amount of nutrients into your body every day.
The food pyramid will show you the road to keeping yourself fit and healthy through a steady and proper diet. Up until recently that’s all the food pyramid did. In 2005 however, the food pyramid as we know it was transformed forever, and a more up-to-date food pyramid took its place. Now you’ll find that instead of the two-dimensional food pyramid, it’s become more three-dimensional. To show the added benefits that regular exercise will have on you, a picture of a person running up a flight of stairs has been added to the side of the food pyramid.
Earlier if you looked at the food pyramid you would have seen horizontal lines across the food pyramid with the food that we eat the most of, originating at the bottom. The food that we should eat the least amount of, can be found at the top. This is the food pyramid that we all know about and the one that was shown to us in school.
The new food pyramid however, is completely different. Apart from the fact that it’s become three dimensional and has a picture of a person climbing up stairs, this new food guide has also eliminated the horizontal lines. Instead we can now see lines starting from the tip of the pyramid and going downward.
Each of these sections are only as big, or small, as the earlier food pyramid sections were. Only with this new food pyramid, you now know that you need to eat some food types more than others, even within those food groups there are some foods that you should only eat in moderation.
Additionally you’ll also find that your new food pyramid is color coded. So you’ll get an Orange stripe representing grains; a Green stripe for vegetables; a Red stripe for fruits; a Yellow stripe denoting how much fats and oils you should have; a Blue stripe for the milk and dairy products that you’re allowed; and a Purple stripe showing you the quantities of meats, fish, beans and suchlike that you should eat in a day.
With six colored stripes denoting the quantities of food you should take, and a picture of a healthy person in exercise up a flight of stairs on the side of it, this new food pyramid is absolutely better than the old one, and can help you learn more about better eating habits, and a healthy and fit lifestyle.
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