Why Aren't Food-Pyramids More-Specific about WHY You Need the Different Foods?
@mythociate (21437)
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
December 14, 2012 11:38pm CST
You know the old one, it only included 'the number of servings it takes to build that part of the pyramid.' The new one--more a 'colored plate' than a 'pyramid'--just gives you an idea of "how much of a plate to fill with each type of food."
Maybe I don't need 'the standard diet,' but how would I know unless the pyramid-design tells me what I might need each food for?
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@chrystalia (1208)
• Tucson, Arizona
15 Dec 12
well, call my cynical, but I think the government figures either people won't care, or they won't understand it. The chart USED to say, years ago, what each group meant and give a short explanation of the benefits of the food group--but now, like most things, it's becoming an icon chart. Does it even have WORDS on it anymore, by the way? I have noticed that a lot of things don't I bought some sort of gadget last month--don't remember what now--and the instructions were all pictures, no words. The new windows 8 is a lot more icon oriented as well. A symptom of an illiterate society, perhaps. I don't know if they even teach that stuff in school anymore, but if they don't I wouldn't be surprised. Displeased--because nutrition is important--but not surprised.
@mythociate (21437)
• Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
15 Dec 12
It's up to us literate ones to encourage others to-be literate and -encourage others-to be literate and -on and on ... a Literation Nation! [i][/i]
@chrystalia (1208)
• Tucson, Arizona
15 Dec 12
Good Luck 
. I went through the drive through at Mc Donald's earlier--and the directions for cooking and assembling the burgers over the new grill area were all photos--no words. And some Chinese guy wrote a best selling book--all in icons, would you believe. I was a little chagrined to realize I was having trouble "reading" it--but I'm sure 90% of teenagers could read it. Just another sign of the times, I guess.
. I went through the drive through at Mc Donald's earlier--and the directions for cooking and assembling the burgers over the new grill area were all photos--no words. And some Chinese guy wrote a best selling book--all in icons, would you believe. I was a little chagrined to realize I was having trouble "reading" it--but I'm sure 90% of teenagers could read it. Just another sign of the times, I guess.
@marguicha (215852)
• Chile
15 Dec 12
I feel completly represented by your words, chrystalia. It has taken me a long time to learn to use some new gadgets because it seems that I was supposed to have a prior knowledge which was not in words. I have to wait for my grandchildren so that they can help me figure it out.
@veganbliss (3895)
• Adelaide, Australia
15 Dec 12
Seems to me that they've got something to hide!
I reckon the standard food pyramid, for a very long time now, has been used to promote the livestock - dairy - egg industries & it's these industries that fund it in return. There has been whole reports & even books written on this stuff, so I won't go into it now.
I like the five food groups of the vegan pyramid better. Much more trustworthy in my opinion. I wonder if there's a pyramid for raw-fooders out yet? Maybe funded by the local fruit shop???
I reckon the standard food pyramid, for a very long time now, has been used to promote the livestock - dairy - egg industries & it's these industries that fund it in return. There has been whole reports & even books written on this stuff, so I won't go into it now.
I like the five food groups of the vegan pyramid better. Much more trustworthy in my opinion. I wonder if there's a pyramid for raw-fooders out yet? Maybe funded by the local fruit shop???@mythociate (21437)
• Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
6 Jan 13
Do you have an image of the vegan pyramid? Or a link to it somewhere?
But 'I gotsta have my animal-flesh ... RAWR!'
