Contest winner..Better Food Pyramid (watch it get blasted to smithereens)

[SoCalDem]

http://www.good.is/post/winner-announced-design-a-better-food-pyramid/




We're happy to announce the winner of our project to design a better food pyramid. Judge Marion Nestle pored over all your submissions and settled on Andrew Lasky's, which you can see above. Nestle didn't think anyone created anything as powerful as the original food pyramid, but she liked what Lasky was doing:

The 1992 pyramid was pretty good overall, and a wonderful teaching tool. It clearly conveyed the idea that it was better to eat foods from the bottom of the pyramid than from the top (the hierarchy concept). And it was based on years of nutrition and consumer research, much of it focused on public understanding of the design. The pyramid design, with the narrow part at the top, won out over many, many other options. With that said, it overemphasized carbohydrate foods (breads, cereals, grains) and much of our present obesity crisis is due to the increase in calorie intake from those foods and sugars. Fixing that would be a big improvement. The double column design adds in another element important to many people these days: how food is produced. I’d like to see some of that incorporated into a pyramid that emphasizes fruits and vegetables more than grains.

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All of the submissions are excellent and worth checking out. You can see them all here.

[Le Taz Hot]

1. Why would it get blasted?

Living in a farming community, I particularly like the farm vs. factory aspect. Buying local benefits your local economy AND the environment when it doesn't have to be shipped from 2,000 miles away.

[SoCalDem]

2. there is a contingent here that swoops in on threads like this

Maybe they are all stuck at airports :)

[Le Taz Hot]

3. Well, somethin's stuck somewhere.

ba dum, Tshh! :evilgrin:

[tavalon]

4. Monsanto posts here under many names.

But it's late Sunday night on a holiday weekend. Wait for a few hours. You'll see. It's kind of creepy, actually.

[Lorien]

7. Yep. They are as predictable as the sunrise. They spend a lot of time in the

Health forum, which shouldn't be surprising.

And the proud animal flesh eaters get their panties in a wad when ANYTHING that suggests that one should not eat meat at every meal as a primary food group gets posted. Just wait for it.

[astral]

5. More Non-Genetically Modified Food. Less Frankenfood.

But how can we tell? The FDA has banned labeling in the stores. They believe it would 'just confuse' us.

Eating the right kind of fat and not eating simple starches would help. (Canola oil isnt' the 'right kind' of fat.)

[TalkingDog]

6. Less? You want me to consume LESS?

Terrorist.

[petronius]

8. Some of those are really nice - I like the cube idea (although the alcohol numbers

seem very high), the color wheel, and the paw. The onion-tomato-bean recipe flowchart is a keeper too.

I was really surprised a few months ago when I went looking for a graphic of the food pyramid to put in a lecture that it was phased out; I'm sure the ~80 page Dietary Guidelines for Americans and the whole MyPyramid scheme are more comprehensive, but a simple one page graphic has a lot of power...

[SoCalDem]

9. and even small kids understand less & more

:)