LOS ANGELES farewell, food pyramid. Officials are preparing flat of nutritional advice to the nation on a plateau more appetizing.
The U.S. Department of Agriculture is set to unveil a replacement of its food pyramid decried Thursday morning, disposal of the triangle of Rainbow Stripes with a border staircase for a simple circle designed to evoke a plate.
"" That would go very far to produce something that is actually useful for nutritionists and Dietitians of the United States, "said James Painter, a psychologist of the food and the dietician at the University of Illinois at Charleston, ill the key, says, is that it would give viewers a quick idea of what their meals should look like when they sit down at the table."
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Half of the circle will be filled with fruits and vegetables, another section will present rice, cereals and other grains, and the rest will be contain proteins like chicken and walnuts, as people who have seen the icon. Off to the side, a small circle will be represent dairy products - consider it as a glass or milk, one cup of yogurt or (if it is somewhat a stretch) maybe even a latte.
The Federal Government has spent decades trying to represent a healthy diet in a simple graphic and the pyramid was adopted in 1992. The product of ten years of research, she placed grain base, fruits and vegetables in the medium and small quantities of dairy products and proteins to the top. Candies and other poorly perceived articles appeared on the edge of the warning to "use sparingly".
The science of nutrition and food producers pressure prompted changes which culminated in the 2005 My pyramid. Six different bands - representative of cereals, vegetables, fruits, oils, milk and meat and beans - radiate downward from the apex, eliminate this that some saw as overly on grain in the previous design. A stylized stick figure showed a stairs is common on the left flank to convey the importance of the exercise. But the icon has shown no actual foods and required consumers go online to obtain specific information on what they should eat.
"I call it precipitated and unnecessary," said Marion Nestle, a Professor of nutrition, food studies and public health at the University of New York. "It was unteachable." You could not explain what accounted for the color. »
Even the USDA came to recognize its shortcomings.
"The pyramid can be complex and confusing for some, and in some cases too simplistic for others," said Robert Post, Deputy Director of the USDA Center for Nutrition and Promotion policy.
The United States is almost the only country struggling with how best to present information on healthy eating.
In China, a five-tiered pagoda is distinct levels for starches, produce, protein, dairy products and oils. In the Guatemala, a traditional ceramic kitchen pot called an olla is filled with photos of pineapples, fish and corn bags.
Grenada, called "The Isle of Spice", showcases his circle of food in an open nutmeg nuts cracked. The Government of the Dominican Republic displays his advice in nutrition within a mortar and pestle filled with eggs, lawyers and other foodstuffs that stands on a Board cutting printed with images of a smiling baby, crawling and a chest mysteriously detached from breastfeeding.
Despite this diversity, the icons of food generally agree on what belongs to a daily diet: lots of Greens, easy on the candy.
"You can get both countries to agree on what that either politically or socially, and yet they are all arrive with the same basic idea, said painter, who studied 65 icons of nutrition Government everywhere in the world.". He said long fostered diagrams plate used in the Mexico and the United Kingdom, which include even utensils for maximum effect.
In its long history to provide advice of nutrition for Americans, the USDA has used before circles - and rectangles, triangles and other shapes. Its icon for long, use from 1958 to 1979, consisted of a box with four equal areas of meat, dairy, cereals, fruit and vegetable products.
Whatever the shape, historically diagrams had one thing in common, Nestle said: "first 50 or 60 years, guides food promotion eat more American agricultural products."
At the time, the control of the party was not a problem. Government officials were more concerned about malnutrition with chronic diseases related to being overweight and obesity, the issue of health recovery by first lady Michelle Obama "Let's Move" campaign. (Obama will participate in Thursday unveiling, according to USDA officials of).
Even after the control of the party entered the equation, the icons was still on the latest science of nutrition. For example, the original food pyramid has recommended a heavy diet carbohydrates and made little distinction between whole grains in good health and highly processed elements such as white bread. Outgoing pyramid continues to set the types of oil, although some found in plants and fish are now considered good for the heart, while others, such as acids trans fat, can clog arteries and lead to heart attacks and stroke.
Nestlé said that she was impressed that the new plate of food devotes half its space to fruits and vegetables, because of the potential objections of food producers.
"The Ministry of Agriculture has a long history of being in bed with the food industry, and it moves beyond," says of Nestlé. "It does not go as far as I would like to, but he is brave enough."
To date, representatives of the food industry trade groups react positively to change. Ann Marie Krautheim, a dietitian and Vice-President of the Affairs of nutrition for the National Council of dairy products in Chicago, Illinois, said that she did not mind that cheese, yogurt and other dairy products make the plate itself.
"We really love how dairy type of markdown," said Krautheim. "It draws the eye, and it will be a good reminder that a portion of dairy products must accompany every meal."
Dr. David Kessler, former Commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration, which has campaigned against obesity, still sees a large enough problem: people begin to eat what is on this plate.
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"That bacon-cheeseburger order with French fries and a shake nothing as the plate appearance which is recommended," said Kessler, who wrote the book to success 2009 "the end of Overeating". "We will even eat meals more - that we eat throughout the day.".
With rates of obesity and diabetes on the rise, Kessler said, people to change their eating habits is an absolute priority.
"If we could eat in the manner suggested by the new plate, we can reverse this epidemic", said Kessler.
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