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Article: Pyramid empowered: the new Food Guide Pyramid--and the 2005 Dietary Guidelines that inspired it--present an opportunity for food processors.(new product DEVELOPMENT)
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- Refrigerated & Frozen Foods
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- July 1, 2005
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Its proponents point out that it's colorful, thorough and customizable. Its critics contend that it's complicated, confusing and even biased.
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"It" is the newly revamped Food Guide Pyramid, USDA's latest attempt at balancing the collective American diet. The government agency recently turned the familiar pyramid graphic on its side, at least stripe-wise, and combined it with an interactive Web-based tool (www.MyPyramid.gov) designed to individualize nutrition recommendations set forth in the 2005 Dietary Guidelines. The online tool considers physical activity, age, height and other factors in assessing individual food intake--and ...