What is the difference between MyPyramid and Dietary Guidelines education materials?
• MyPyramid materials offer a good overview of what you need in your diet to get adequate nutrients in calories allotted. Recommendations are based on the food groups in MyPyramid. We believe this is a great approach and visual lesson for general audiences and children that need basic nutrition information. • Dietary Guidelines materials offer a comprehensive review of what today’s consumers need to do to eat better. It is a report card approach for “what we are doing now and where we need to go from here based on the best science.” For example, the Dietary Guidelines explain how individuals need to limit sugar and they show that 50% of the sugar most people eat comes from beverages. They explain that you need to eat more dark green and orange vegetables. And you need to cut sodium in half based on what most people are eating. And that you We believe these are very comprehensive and the golden standard for a healthy diet. The exercise information is also more comprehensive here. The Di
