Discover the surprising history of the USDA's nutritional guidelines—from humble beginnings to the infamous food pyramid ...

Do you remember being in school and being taught the food pyramid? We were told that it was the pinnacle of how to eat ...

Cereal box readers likely recognize the Food Guide Pyramid, a graphic designed by the US Department of Agriculture (USDA) as an easy-to-follow guide to healthy eating. The pyramid's designers thought ...

Did Americans of all economic levels have better choices in the ’50s than now? Did the supposed “food desert” problem get worse? When Nina Teicholz wrote her book The Big Fat Surprise ...

In biology the relationship of what eats what and how energy passes through an ecosystem is called a food chain. Pyramids can help give us an overall picture of a particular food chain.

Researchers at Tufts' Human Nutrition Research Center on Aging (HNRCA) have published an updated food guide pyramid for aging adults, which includes a graphic illustration to build on a previous ...

MyPlate replaced the food pyramid. It comes from the U.S. government as a way to picture what to put on your plate. The beauty of MyPlate is in using a plate icon to "measure" the relative portion ...