Comments on: Building Your Own Food Pyramid http://www.outsidethebeltway.com/archives/building_your_own_food_pyramid/ Online Journal of Politics and Foreign Affairs Thu, 26 Nov 2009 21:59:39 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 hourly 1 By: Chris Jones http://www.outsidethebeltway.com/archives/building_your_own_food_pyramid/comment-page-1/#comment-45566 Chris Jones Wed, 11 May 2005 14:30:15 +0000 /?p=10216#comment-45566 How many homeless people could have been fed with all the tax dollars spent on developing a chart that will not make a differnece in more than 1% of peolpe in America, what a joke. Another perfect example of our tax dollars hard at work. How many homeless people could have been fed with all the tax dollars spent on developing a chart that will not make a differnece in more than 1% of peolpe in America, what a joke. Another perfect example of our tax dollars hard at work.

]]> By: Pat Deering http://www.outsidethebeltway.com/archives/building_your_own_food_pyramid/comment-page-1/#comment-43882 Pat Deering Tue, 26 Apr 2005 15:31:22 +0000 /?p=10216#comment-43882 As a graphic artist, I applaud the USDA for coming up with a winning, thought provoking design. The fact that there is more than one pyramid has been criticized unfairly in my opinion. One size does not fit all. The main message of the pyramid is and always has been to get REGULAR exercise and to eat a WELL BALANCED diet. No matter what the artwork looks like or no matter whether you have access to the internet or not, this message will unfortunately be lost on most of American's. Our society has been brought up on a diet of fattening fast food for "convenience" sake, have forgotten how to eat and shop for good whole foods, and are more inactive than ever before. I applaud the USDA for coming up with this new conceptual way to illustrate what healthy eating is and that exercise MUST be part of the picture. As a graphic artist, I applaud the USDA for coming up with a winning, thought provoking design. The fact that there is more than one pyramid has been criticized unfairly in my opinion. One size does not fit all.

The main message of the pyramid is and always has been to get REGULAR exercise and to eat a WELL BALANCED diet. No matter what the artwork looks like or no matter whether you have access to the internet or not, this message will unfortunately be lost on most of American's. Our society has been brought up on a diet of fattening fast food for "convenience" sake, have forgotten how to eat and shop for good whole foods, and are more inactive than ever before.

I applaud the USDA for coming up with this new conceptual way to illustrate what healthy eating is and that exercise MUST be part of the picture.

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