Do you remember being in school and being taught the food pyramid? We were told that it was the pinnacle of how to eat ...

Cereal box readers likely recognize the Food Guide Pyramid, a graphic designed by the US Department ... The pyramid's designers thought that by featuring common foods, more people would make use of it ...

The food pyramid has long been a source of fluctuating ... “The majority of RDs, such as myself, now use MyPlate,” says Lim. “It’s way more simple to communicate and teach the population ...

MyPlate replaced the food pyramid. It comes from the U.S. government as a way to picture what to put on your plate. The beauty of MyPlate is in using a plate icon to "measure" the relative portion ...

As many elderly adults are not proficient with the Internet, MyPyramid ended up being difficult for them to use, said Alice Lichtenstein, director of the Cardiovascular Nutrition Laboratory at HNRCA.