Nutritional Pyramid - what should you really eat?

We can’t look at a nutritional pyramid these days without thinking of food and healthy eating. There was the U.S. government’s Food Guide nutritional pyramid, followed by its replacement, My nutritional pyramid, which was basically the same thing, just pitched on its side. The problem was that these efforts, while generally good intentioned, have been quite flawed at actually showing people what makes up a healthy diet. Why? Their recommendations have often been based on out-of-date science and influenced by people with business interests in their messages.

But, there’s a better alternative: the Healthy Eating nutritional pyramid, built by the faculty in the Department of Nutrition at the Harvard School of Public Health. Based on the latest science, and unaffected by businesses and organizations with a stake in its messages, the Health Eating nutritional pyramid is a simple, trustworthy guide to choosing a healthy diet. Its foundation is daily exercise and weight control, since these two related elements strongly influence your chances of staying healthy. The Healthy Eating nutritional pyramid builds from there, showing that you should eat more foods from the bottom part of the nutritional pyramid (vegetables, whole grains) and less from the top (red meat, refined grains).

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