The federal government last week unveiled a new food chart, called MyPyramid, designed to guide Americans in making healthier choices about what to eat. Coming at a time of mounting concern about ...

Concerned about steadily expanding waistlines, the government sacked its one-size-fits-all food pyramid yesterday in favor of a dozen different guides geared to individual nutritional needs and ...

It may soon be a little easier to scale the U.S. food pyramid: Grocery manufacturers and food producers last week launched a national campaign to help consumers follow the government's healthy-diet ...

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” ...

During a decade as health columnist and beat writer at the Chicago Tribune, my desk was not far from one of the newspaper's break rooms. On occasion, I would be standing near the vending machines ...

Every five years, the United States Drug Administration (USDA) collaborates with the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to update the Dietary Guidelines for Americans. In 1992, these ...

This led her team to create the new food pyramid as a graphic image, which she hopes will be easier for the elderly to access and understand. The pyramid stresses the importance of consuming non-fat ...

Tufts University researchers have updated their Food Guide Pyramid for Older Adults to correspond with the USDA food pyramid, now known as MyPyramid. The Modified MyPyramid for Older Adults continues ...

WASHINGTON -- The U.S. Department of Agriculture last week revealed a new "food pyramid" guidance system that packages dietary recommendations with an emphasis on exercise that can be tailored to ...

There is no Mayo Clinic Diet. But, there is a new Mayo Clinic Healthy Food Pyramid. This is the first food pyramid developed to encourage weight loss, weight maintenance and long term health ROCHESTER ...

The U.S. Agriculture Department has revised the familiar food pyramid, hoping to make it simpler. But critics say the "new, improved" pyramid might as well be in hieroglyphics. Called MyPyramid, the ...