Providing your family with well-balanced meals is one of the most essential steps towards ensuring a healthy lifestyle. The ...

Researchers from the School of Public Health and Harvard Health Publications released on Wednesday the Healthy Eating Plate, a new visual guide for creating nutritious meals.

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The food pyramid that represented a healthy diet for almost 20 years now gives way to a food plate, the U.S. Department of Agriculture announced today. First lady Michelle Obama, Surgeon General ...

The new way to eat healthier: Follow the food plate — not the food pyramid. The USDA introduced the plate symbol Thursday. It replaced the pyramid, which was first introduced in 1992. The plate ...

It's the super-nanny state! 80-page guide on how to feed toddlers includes actual-size diagram of the perfect PLATE By RICHARD HARTLEY-PARKINSON Updated: 02:57 EDT, 18 January 2012 ...

Images of the original food pyramid and the current visual are below. I commend the effort of the government, led by the First Lady, to push the healthy eating initiative.

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Obama praised the simplicity of the diagram for parents concerned with their kids’ healthy eating habits: “It’s nice to know that if half [of a child’s] meal is fruits and vegetables ...

In response to rising rates of childhood obesity, the U.S. Department of Agriculture announced Thursday that the food pyramid nutritional diagram will be replaced by a simple plate. The idea is ...

The nearly 20-year-old food pyramid will soon give way to a new symbol. Speculation is it will be a dinner plate with sections representing the most important food groups.