The different food pyramids....

It's Tuesday, the day of the classes. Three classes scheduled, the first one almost done with. The topic to discuss in this class is quite interesting. We are talking about the evolution of nutrition and recommendations in the US. This included a lot of content ranging from dietary recommendation cards in the US; how their wordings changed from assertive words like "avoid salt" to politically correct words like "choose to have salt in moderation", how the decision making with something so scientific as nutrition and health has been influenced by politics and industry.
We also looked at the evolution of the food pyramid. The food pyramid from 1992 explains quite well why obesity is a disease in the US and a lot of the western world.



It is quite evident that the whole issue with this pyramid is that it recommended a superfluous intake of bread and cereal- the whole problem with the current day diet in the developed world!

This pyramid needed flipping, which did happen in 2005. The current day food pyramid would be self explanatory....




The beauty of this pyramid is that it not only tells people that carbohydrates and sugars are bad for them, but also that good health is about healthy eating compounded with exercise!

For the pleasures of those really into this stuff, following is the Food Pyramid drafted by Walter Willett, who can practically be termed the father of Nutritional Epidemiology. Hopefully a lot would be incorporated in the upcoming 2010 food pyramid.....

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My Tuesday evening class

I am back in class....Tuesday evening, 2.5 hours, painful, painful, painful.
It's not surprising I am writing this post right now. My last post was exactly a week back from this very class, which is scheduled just once a week. Quite an irony, the fact that the only time that I have come back to blogger to leave a post, the only time when I have been free, more mentally than time-wise really, is when I am in class, this very class!

But I get the feeling that I have to stop letting these lag times come in the way.....I mean I am busy and everything, but I still get my daily dose of news and other interesting articles, and coming to blogger for 5 minutes in a day would certainly do no harm to my quest with the boards.

Anyways, if nothing else happens, this class will, a week from now.......

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