Re: MyPyramid.gov vs Harvard Healthy Eating Pyramid

Maybe they want people to get the vitamin D that is added to milk.


"Enrico C" <use_replyto_address@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> First, let me say I am not an anti-milk! Not at all. I just love milk, I
> drink it every day and I think it's good food (unless there is something
> that spoils it, of course).
>
> But... I can't understand why MyPyramid.gov shows "Milk" as one of the
> essential food groups:
> Grains
> Vegetables
> Fruits
> Milk
> Meat & Beans
> Oils
> Discretionary Calories
> Physical Activity
>
>
> Well, I love milk, as I said, but I admit one can live without milk &
dairy
> if they want or need to.
>
> Well, yes... the same could be said for other single foods, but... some
> groups look more "essential" than others, don't they?
> "Meat & Beans" (including fish), for instance, is the wide group of
protein
> sources, and some protein we need somehow, don't we?
>
> I don't understand this new MyPyramid stuff. It's not clear about what is
> good or bad for you. It doesn't show, in a picture, what you should eat
> more ore less. Those colored stripes look like abstract art, as someone
> said, and the names of the food groups are ill picked, imho. If "Milk" is
> essential, why not "Fish"? Why are good olive oil and not-so-good
> margarine together in the "Oils" group? Why do they say "Grains" rather
> than "Whole Grains".
> And where is the "No, thanks!" to pops, candies and added sugar? If it's
> somewhere in MyPyramid, it's well hidden!
>
> And, I wonder, why didn't USDA use the Harvard Healthy Eating Pyramid
> instead?
> http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/nutritionsource/pyramids.html
>
> Apart from some difference in content, Harvard Pyramyd makes *clear* the
> do's and dont's about food: YES to whole grains and olive oil, for
> instance, Vegetable *in abundance*, YES to legumes and nuts, NO to lots of
> sweets, use *sparingly* butter and fatty red meat.... and so on...
> Most of those ideas can be found in the new American Guide Lines 2005,
> can't they?, but they are not clearly expressed in MyPyramyd symbols.
> Why?


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