Dietary Guidelines for Americans provides recommendations for food-based policy in public schools and assistance programs ...

Most Americans are familiar with the "food pyramid" — a diagram developed by the United States Department of Agriculture and touted as a tool for helping people track their food intake. The USDA ...

In 2011, the U.S. food pyramid received its first-ever makeover since its creation in 1992. The triangular diagram, which was originally built on a foundation of bread, crackers and cereal, was ...

Here’s a quick quiz: What took the place of the food pyramid, the government guide to healthy eating that stood for nearly 20 years? If you’re stumped, you’re not alone. More than a decade after ...

The government on Tuesday discarded its one-size-fits-all food pyramid in favor of 12 different triangle-shaped guides, each geared to people's differing lifestyles and nutritional needs. Inside the ...

In 1992, life as we knew it changed forever. The Food Pyramid came out, showing us a food plan to which we could theoretically stick. I remember reading about it in our health book in elementary ...

Are you working hard to lose weight and get healthy – but not seeing results? Well, listen up: It’s not your fault. The problem could be the old advice you’re still following. For years, the food ...

It is a well-documented fact that millennials are obsessed with food. Though, to be fair, most humans are as it’s essential to live. Perhaps it’s more that we’re obsessed with how millennials are ...

Hot on the heels of new Recommended Daily Allowances comes a new Food Pyramid. Phil ‘The Food Pharoah’ Lempert offers a 101. The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) unveiled its new “food pyramid” ...