Why is the Harvard Healthy Eating Pyramid Different to the USDA Food Pyramid?
I wonder if you knew that Harvard came out with their own Healthy Eating Pyramid because they didn’t support the USDA Food Pyramid? Harvard’s thoughts about the USDA’s pyramid and it’s successor My Pyramid, were: “Its blueprint was based on shaky scientific evidence, and it hasn’t appreciably changed over the years to reflect major advances in our understanding of the connection between diet and health.” I don’t know about you but I get both intrigued and annoyed when something that is promoted so widely as being good for you is brought into such questionable limelight by a reputable organization and nothing, zero, zip, nada is apparently done about it. So I’ve been doing a bit of personal digging and exploring over the past few years and believe I have something to offer to turn the confusion into clarity and point the way to where the food pyramid could go in the future Why is it important to you? Because when I was in medical school it used to take 20-30 years between a new idea’s d
