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by The US Department of Agriculture has revamped the food pyramid. The new pyramid was designed to be more flexible and to include the recommendations released earlier this year in the annual Dietary Guidelines. Also, for the first time exercise plays an integral role in the plan. Each food group is assigned a color (orange for whole grains, green for vegetables, red for fruits, yellow for oils, blue for milk, and purple for beans and meat) and is arranged vertically, replacing the horizontal, non-color-coded model that has been in use since 1992.
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Fast Food in School
Many people may be suprised at this, but this past fall as I spoke with a co-worker's son I was made aware that his grade school serves fast food type crap once a week. There is a 4 week rotation at the school, which has contracted Taco Bell, Burger King, McDonalds, and KFC to serve at least one lunch a month to the little future heart attack victims. So now, not only are the kids with parents who are too busy to feed them a good meal at home getting fat at home, but they get their full compliment of artery blocking food groups at school too.
The good new . . . I read an article posted just this week by Fox and CNN that the obesity rate in the U.S. may actually be declining. When I stop seeing fat people sitting at McDonalds shoving a way too big burger in their mouth, I'll believe it.
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Too Much Traffic... A Good Sign? by markmcb :: NR7 :: Show
You know, my first thought was "who is really going to look at this and/or care?" This was as I read about the pyramid in the Wall Street Journal's write up on the change. But later in the article it said that the site was having difficulties because it had received 15 million hits before the end of its first day online. Out of curiosity, I followed the link Brandon provided to find an "Under Construction" posting that was most likely put up due to a server overload.
Is this a sign that people are thinking about their diets, or just a burst of curiosity? Regardless, I think the most important addition was exercise. I'm glad to see the government say that sitting around will make you fat and is not healthy. I just wonder if this line of thinking could bleed over into health care and allow the government to force exercise onto people dipping into Uncle Sam's pockets for obesity related health issues.
I mostly like the idea of this new pyramid implying that it's your fault if you're fat, not the government's. Will it change the nation? Probably not. But I think it is a step in the right direction.