What Pyramids, Where?

Okay, so Foodie was all a-twitter in anticipation when she heard the USDA was issuing 12 food pyramids to the great obese American public, ( she  exaggerates,) to replace the one that eagerly pushed meat and dairy( don't get Foodie  wrong, she's not anti meat, well not much, or dairy) --By that she thought she would be able to download the Mediterranean diet, the Inuit diet, the vegan diet, the Midwest meatloaf diet, the veggie, the Kosher, the Berkeley professorial, whatever!  But no----Foodie wandered the USDA website in vain, looking for those 12 pyramids. ( The Egyptian diet!?)

So she clicked on MY Pyramid, entered that Foodie was a 33 year-old male who exercised a lot
( she lies) and then fell asleep waiting for her/his  ideal dietary path to download.

Anyone out there? What do they mean by 12?  Where are they?  Are there 12 different options that  appear randomly when we type in our age, gender and weight?

(Canada uses a food rainbow instead...)

Foodie did appreciate the stick figure clambering up that pyramid, signifying the need to move, America. Those slaves who lived on flatbread topped with green onions and olive oil while they built the Pyramids, they were fit, those folks.

Enough of these virtual pyramids, we need some actuals.

Here's an alternative view of the USDA initiative from Corporate Accountability International.

Comments

[jacob]

what food group is the coconut in?

[francine]

Please could you e mail me a desert foodchain or a foodweb a.s.a.p.....

[francine]

Please could you e mail me a desert foodchain or a foodweb a.s.a.p.....

[Foodie]

Sort of. It does not show us a dozen pyramids, as advertised, and also, as I suspected it tends to randomly assign people to an "ideal diet"...

[KathyF]

Here's a site that explains the pyramid in great detail: http://www.mypyramid.org/index.php

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