AR-News: U.S. Considers Food Guide Pyramid Changes

[Orville A Knudsen]

U.S. Considers Food Guide Pyramid Changes
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=534&e=2&u=/ap/20040405/ap_on_sc/fit_food_pyramid

QUOTE:

The suggestions range from wacky to reasonable, but plenty of people have
ideas about how to revamp the federal Food Guide Pyramid, that iconic
graphic that supposedly guides how people eat.

An artist wants the pyramid redrawn as a heart pumping iron. A North
Carolina man wants it to warn of the "poisons" in vegetables. A Virginia
man seems to suggest dumping leafy greens . his nephew doesn't like them.
And just about everyone thinks it should be more specific.

Over 600 pages of letters, e-mails and drawings provide a snapshot of what
a nation obsessed with diet really thinks. The revised pyramid is expected
to be released in early 2005.

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Meanwhile, promoters of the low-carb Atkins Diet began a media blitz this
week with full-page ads of their food pyramid in major newspapers and
magazines. Breads and cereals are relegated to the pyramid's peak.

...

Eric Jaffa wants the "Meat and Beans" group renamed "Beans and Meat" to
encourage people to eat more of the former and less of the latter. But the
United Fishermen of Alaska want it renamed "Meat, Fish and Beans."


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