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A lady at the Harvest Fair last weekend in Sacramento tried to tell us our food pyramid is wrong.
We dont think so.
Kids Growing Strong has chosen to use the pyramid promoted by the Harvard School of Public Health. We have spoken to many experts and believe it is a better alternative to the USDA's "My Pyramid" which, we believe, unintentionally has been influenced by business interests (whose actions ARE intentional.) For a larger image of the Healthy Eating Pyramid in .pdf format click here to visit the Harvard website.
Based on the latest science, and unaffected by businesses and organizations with a stake in its messages, we feel the Healthy Eating Pyramid, built by the faculty in the Department of Nutrition at the Harvard School of Public Health, is a simple, trustworthy guide to choosing a healthy diet.
Its foundation is daily exercise and weight control, since these two related elements strongly influence your chances of staying healthy. The Healthy Eating Pyramid builds from there, showing that you should eat more foods from the bottom part of the pyramid (vegetables, whole grains) and less from the top (red meat, refined grains, sugary drinks, and salt). You can also read more about it here.
