WASHINGTON - JUNE 02: Displays help to explain a new food icon during an event June 2, 2011 at the Agriculture Department in Washington, DC. The Agriculture Department unveiled the new food icon ...

Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced upcoming changes to school lunches, emphasizing simple, ...

USDA unveils the new food icon, MyPlate, to replace the food pyramid that served as the standard for dietary guidelines for nearly 20 years. Move over food pyramid. Make way for the plate.

Most Americans are familiar with the "food pyramid" — a diagram developed by the United States Department of Agriculture and touted as a tool for helping people track their food intake. The USDA ...

Tufts University researchers have updated their Food Guide Pyramid for Older Adults to correspond with the USDA food pyramid, now known as MyPyramid. The Modified MyPyramid for Older Adults ...

New quantitative analysis at Harvard makes use of a 3D mapping technology borrowed from materials science to analyze recipes—for brownies, crepes, cookies, and more. Includes a cut-out dessert ...

There are six how-to messages to guide healthy eating: Enjoy your food, but eat less. Avoid oversized portions. Make half of your plate fruits and vegetables. Switch to fat-free or low-fat (1%) milk.

Then, in 1992, after several successive programs, the USDA established the familiar Food Guide Pyramid, with its six basic food groups. The base of the pyramid, as we all recall, consisted of the ...

The new dietary guidelines will be used to update the familiar food pyramid, which most people recognize but few heed. The revision will be the pyramid's first since it was created 12 years ago.

Instead of trying to decipher food labels, harried shoppers can stick to the basics by dedicating half the plate to produce, 1/4 to protein, including meat, poultry, seafood, eggs, soy, and beans ...