Transcript: Interview: Janet Pregler discusses some of the reasoning behind a plan to revise the Food Guide Pyramid

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ALEX CHADWICK
NPR Special
10-01-2003
Interview: Janet Pregler discusses some of the reasoning behind a plan to revise the Food Guide Pyramid

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I'm Alex Chadwick. This is DAY TO DAY.

Coming up, our weekly book segment features the writer and critic Joan Didion, explaining how the past is reflected in California's culture today.

But first, the Food Guide Pyramid, originally developed in 1992 to help Americans make better food choices, is going to be redesigned because we have gotten to be an awfully sedentary population. Joining us to talk about this is Dr. Janet Pregler. She's associate professor of medicine at UCLA and director of ...

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