Healthy eating pyramid
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The Healthy Eating Pyramid (alternately, Healthy Eating Plate) is a
food guide pyramid created by the USDA
.
The new pyramid aims to include more recent research in dietary health not present in the USDA's 1992 guide. The original USDA pyramid has been criticized for not differentiating between
weight control
.
Food groups
In general terms, the healthy eating pyramid recommends the following intake of different food groups each day, although exact amounts of calorie intake depends on sex, age, and lifestyle:
- At most meals, whole-wheat bread, and brown rice; 1 piece or 4 ounces (110 g).
- sunflower seed oil; 2 ounces (60 g) per day
- Vegetables, in abundance 3 or more each day; each serving = 6 ounces (170 g).
- 2–3 servings of fruits; each serving = 1 piece of fruit or 4 ounces (110 g).
- 1–3 servings of nuts, or legumes; each serving = 2 ounces (60 g).
- 1–2 servings of dairy or calcium supplement; each serving = 8 ounces (230 g) non fat or 4 ounces (110 g) of whole.
- 1–2 servings of eggs; each serving = 4 ounces (110 g) or 1 egg.
- Sparing use of sweets;
- Sparing use of red meat and butter.
See also
- 5 A Day
- Dietary supplement
- Dieting
- List of diets
- Essential nutrient
- Food and Nutrition Service
- Food pyramid (nutrition)
- Functional food
- Health food restaurants
- Healthy diet
- Human nutrition
- MyPlate
- Nutrition education
- Orthorexia nervosa (an obsession with healthy eating)
References
- ^ "Healthy Eating Plate & Healthy Eating Pyramid". Harvard University, TH Chan School of Public Health, Boston. 2017. Retrieved 31 January 2017.
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