Mira the star
Friday, May 6th, 2005check out yesterday’s astronomy pic of the day.
Archive for May 6th, 2005
In honor of “no diet” day
Friday, May 6th, 2005Apparently, the USDA recently ( ) replaced the old food pyramid we knew and loved with “MyPyramid - a new symbol and interactive food guidance system“. The Harvard School of public health isn’t impressed, saying
The good news is that this dismantles and buries the flawed Pyramid. The bad news is that the new symbol doesn’t convey enough information to help you make informed choices about your diet and long-term health. And it continues to recommend foods that aren’t essential to good health, and may even be detrimental in the quantities included in MyPyramid.
so, they built a replacement one, that doesn’t suck.
However, for grad students, here’s a revised nutritional pyramid just for you, in case you haven’t been eating enough Cheerios.
