| The Food Guide Pyramid is one manner for | | | | person should eat a wide variety of foods. A |
| Americans to read how to eat healthy. A rainbow | | | | balanced diet is one that makes use of all the |
| of colored, vertical stripes stands for the five | | | | food groups. From another perspective, have |
| food groups plus fats and oils. Here is what the | | | | foods from every color, every day.We should eat |
| colors stand for:orange = grains | | | | less of some foods, and extra of others. You can |
| green = vegetables | | | | see that the bands for meat and protein are |
| red = fruits | | | | purple and oils are yellow and less pronounced |
| yellow = fats and oils | | | | than the other ones. The reason is because you |
| blue = milk and dairy products | | | | need less of those varieties of foods than your |
| purple = meat, beans, fish, and nutsThe U.S. | | | | need of fruits, vegetables, grains, and dairy |
| Department of Agriculture (USDA) modified the | | | | foods.Your family also can see the bands start |
| pyramid in spring 2005 because they wanted to | | | | out fatter and get skinnier as they approach the |
| do a more enhanced job of narrating to | | | | top side. That is designed to show you that not all |
| Americans how to be healthy. The agency later | | | | foods are made as good as others, even within a |
| released a special variation for children. On this | | | | fit food group like fruit. Sometimes, apple pie |
| website you will observe a girl ascending the | | | | might be in that thin section of the fruit band |
| staircase up the side of the pyramid. That is an | | | | because it has a lot of added sugar and fat. A |
| example of showing kids how important it is to | | | | whole apple would be turn up in the broad part |
| exercise and be active every day. From another | | | | for you can eat more of those in a fit eating |
| perspective, play a lot! The stairs are also a way | | | | regimen.We should all make nutrition personal. |
| of showing that you can make changes in stages | | | | Through the USDA's MyPyramid website, families |
| to be more healthy. One step at a time, | | | | can get personal recommendations about the mix |
| understand?The Pyramid Speaks to us in several | | | | of nutrients they need to have and how much he |
| ways. Let us all confront a few of the additional | | | | or she must be eating. |
| topics this new symbol is trying to pass on:A | | | | |