So long, pyramid. Welcome, MyPlate! First Lady Michelle Obama unveiled on Thursday the government’s new symbol for healthy eating, a colorful plate divided into the basic food groups ...

In 1992, the USDA unveiled its Food Guide Pyramid as a replacement for the outdated Four Basic Food Groups, which had been ... from whole grains and at least five weekly servings should come ...

There are actually 12 different food pyramids from which you can choose. By visiting www.mypyramid.gov, you can make all sorts of modifications to make a pyramid work for you. Depending on your ...

This was succeeded by the basic four food group system—milk, veggies and fruits, meats and bread—in 1956, which endured until the pyramid model was introduced in 1992. And of course there are ...

My Pyramid, introduced in 2005, was a chore for consumers to understand, experts said. Its colored stripes represented different food groups ... someone run past its five-tiered pagoda of ...

The food pyramid, a nutritional guideline created and issued by the federal government, was a representation of food groups that make up a healthy diet. But there hasn’t been a food pyramid in ...