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Article: Adapting the Food Guide Pyramid for Children: Defining the Target Audience.
- Article from:
- Family Economics and Nutrition Review
- Article date:
- December 22, 1999
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The USDA's Food Guide, designed to help all healthy 2 years old and over use the Dietary Guidelines for Americans (38), and its graphic representation, the Food Guide Pyramid (Pyramid), have been distributed widely since the Food Guide was first introduced the mid-1980's. The Pyramid has been used widely in a variety of materials (including posters, textbooks, school curricula, and computer software) by nutrition educators and has also been used by industry on food labels. In materials accompanying the Pyramid, USDA recommends that preschool-age children obtain at least the minimal number of servings from the five major food groups, but this age group can have smaller ...