New Food Pyramid: The Basics<\/p>\n
While the new food pyramid may seem confusing at first, you can get well on your way to a healthier, new you by following the basics.<\/p>\n
Grains<\/p>\n
* Eat at least 3 ounces of whole-grain bread, cereal, crackers, rice, or pasta every day.* Look for “whole” before the grain name on the list of ingredients.<\/p>\n
Vegetables<\/p>\n
* Eat more dark green vegetables.* Eat more orange vegetables.* Eat more dry beans and peas.<\/p>\n
Fruits<\/p>\n
* Eat a variety of fruit.* Choose fresh, frozen, canned, or dried fruit.* Go easy on fruit juices.<\/p>\n
Oils<\/p>\n
* Get most of your fat from fish, nuts, and vegetable oils.* Limit solid fats like butter, stick margarine, shortening, and lard.<\/p>\n
Milk<\/p>\n
* Go low fat or fat free.* If you don’t or can’t drink milk, choose lactose-free products or other calcium sources.<\/p>\n
Meat & Beans<\/p>\n
* Choose low-fat or lean meats and poultry.* Bake it, broil it, or grill it.* Vary your choices — with more fish, beans, peas, nuts, and seeds.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
You probably heard about the new food pyramid, haven’t you? The old pyramid is gone, and in place they put several different pyramids. One size does not fit all — that’s what they say. I agree. So if you’re an athlete, you’re going to have a different pyramid than a guy who sits on his butt all day — me :-). But that’s how it should be, because an athlete needs more energy, more food than I do. You can find the new pyramid at MyPyramid.org. But if you look closely, and this article, New Pyramid Gets Personal, did a nice job, it boils down to the following recommendations, below. New Food Pyramid: The Basics While the new food pyramid may seem confusing at first, you can get well on your way to a healthier, new you by following the basics. Grains * Eat at least 3 ounces of whole-grain bread, cereal, crackers, rice, or pasta every day.* Look for “whole” before the grain name on the list of ingredients. Vegetables * Eat more dark green vegetables.* Eat more orange vegetables.* Eat more dry beans and peas. Fruits * Eat a variety of fruit.* Choose fresh, frozen, canned, or dried fruit.* Go easy on fruit juices. Oils * Get most of your fat from fish, nuts, and vegetable oils.* Limit solid fats like butter, stick margarine, shortening, and lard. Milk * Go low fat or fat free.* If you don’t or can’t drink milk, choose lactose-free products or other calcium sources. Meat & Beans * Choose low-fat or lean meats and poultry.* Bake it, broil it, or grill it.* Vary your choices — with more fish, beans, peas, nuts, and seeds.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-off-topic"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifelonglearner.kubasek.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifelonglearner.kubasek.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifelonglearner.kubasek.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifelonglearner.kubasek.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifelonglearner.kubasek.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=73"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifelonglearner.kubasek.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifelonglearner.kubasek.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=73"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifelonglearner.kubasek.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=73"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifelonglearner.kubasek.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=73"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}