| The old food pyramid | | Posted Monday, February 06, 2006 12:21:03 PM by Kate Grant | You've seen it on the back of a cereal box, or at your doctor's office.  The picture of the old food pyramid.
Yes, that triangle divided into horizontal sections, guiding you about the right foods, and the number of servings you should eat daily from each category.
Well, it changed a bit. Nutritionists claim, that eating according to your life style and the new food pyramid, is the best way to maintain a healthy diet, and preserve what you accomplished until now, during a diet.
If you are a vegetarian, a vegan, young or old, there are special food pyramids for you, catering to your nutrition needs. You can find the new pyramids, sectioned vertically this time, on the USDA (United States Department of Agriculture)food pyramid web page, and print your own.
My food pyramid shouldn't be like your food pyramid, they're based on our different needs. So print it out, stick on the fridge, eat accordingly and you'll stay healthy.
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| | | Newark schools | | Posted Monday, March 12, 2007 2:55:04 PM by Blog57 Team | | Second-grade students will present "Seussical the Musical" for families and friends at 7 p.m. Thursday in the North gym. We also will read some student writing aloud that night and cook up some North Elementary School "Stone Soup!" Students will receive a copy of Dr. Seuss' "If I Ran the Zoo." Also on Thursday, Domino's Pizza will have a "Dough Raising Night" to benefit North Elementary. The class with the most pizzas ordered from Domino's that evening will be awarded a class pizza party. Congratulations to Mrs. Bartlett's second-grade class that won the party for February. .... | |
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| | | New Food Pyramid Offers Building Blocks to Good Nutrition | | Posted Saturday, February 10, 2007 12:57:19 PM by Blog57 Team | | SUNDAY, Jan. 28 (HealthDay News) -- The new and improved U.S. Department of Agriculture's food guide pyramid -- called MyPyramid -- is helping Americans, young and old, to better understand how to eat healthfully, dietitians say. The new pyramid features vertical bands (rather than the old horizontal pyramid sections) in six different colors to represent different food groups and types. Orange equals grains, green is for vegetables, red is for fruits, blue represents dairy, purple is meat and beans, and yellow stands for oils. .... | |
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| | | Editorial: Healthy eating | | Posted Thursday, November 23, 2006 12:55:15 PM by Blog57 Team | | With mounting evidence that the deadly diet of high-calorie drinks, cholesterol-rich foods and salty fare is causing blood pressure, sugar levels, heart attacks and obesity to rise at an alarming rate, the deal struck between the Health Ministry and food manufacturers and fast food chains is cause for cheer. They have agreed to reduce the sugar, fat and salt in their products from July next year. Although the permissible levels of the three substances are still the subject of discussions, this is, nevertheless, a positive development in the efforts to ensure that foods sold in this country are wholesome and appropriately labelled. While the ministry can be expected to draw up guidelines based on sound nutritional principles in the interest of the health of consumers, the carrot that it is dangling in the form of a "Healthy Choice" logo to those who meet the benchmarks should appeal to the commercial instincts of the food industry.... | |
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| | | Food industry is taking note of unhealthy trans fats | | Posted Wednesday, November 15, 2006 6:55:55 AM by Blog57 Team | | Naturally occurring trans fats in meat and dairy products account for a small percentage of our total trans fat consumption. The lion's share comes from trans fats that are created when hydrogen is added to liquid vegetable oils to make them solid at room temperature and less prone to rancidity. These partially hydrogenated oils not only extend shelf life for the food they are used in, but they also impart desirable texture and flavor qualities to fried and processed foods and baked goods, explains Robert Reeves, president of the Institute of Shortenings and Edible Oils in Washington. Hydrogenated oils turn up in fast-food restaurants, bakeries, cafeterias and supermarkets in such foods as shortening and certain margarines, doughnuts, cookies and pies, microwave popcorn and crackers, french fries and fried fish sandwiches, and frozen pizzas and refrigerated biscuit dough.... | |
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| | | Nigeria: KTC Old Boys Honour Former Principal | | Posted Sunday, November 12, 2006 3:08:42 AM by Blog57 Team | | The Kaduna Teachers College Old Boys Association (now Government Secondary School, Kawo) fhas honored one of their former principals, Alhaji Abdu Kaita. The students who met at Kaduna drove in a convoy of two buses to the Katsina State home of the former principal to honour him. They re-iterated their solidarity and loyalty to their old teacher whom they said was like a father to them while they were students. .... | |
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| | | 'If ever there was a school of hard knocks, it's this one. It had a fearsome reputation' | | Posted Wednesday, November 08, 2006 6:59:31 PM by Blog57 Team | | I get back to Hartridge, 31 years after I left, just in time. They're about to knock it down. They might not even retain the name, which doesn't have the greatest reputation in its home town of Newport, Monmouthshire. If ever there was a school of hard knocks, it's Hartridge, a comprehensive which, as everyone admits, is "challenging". The head thinks the council might prefer to rebrand the new school, due to open in 2009, Llanwern Heights. Where to begin? In 1968, perhaps, when I went there as a quivering schoolboy. It had a fearsome reputation. It was huge: 2,000 pupils, 40-acre site, three separate buildings - lower, middle and upper school - and a steep grassy bank that you were pushed down shortly after arriving. My back ached for weeks after my tumbling rite of passage. Its tough reputation came - and still comes - from the fact that it is a "neighbourhood" school.... | |
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| | | Sensible Nutrition for the Single Professional | | Posted Sunday, November 05, 2006 2:57:05 PM by Blog57 Team | | Ask anyone who works for a living how much time they have to focus on healthy eating and chances are the answer will end in dietary disaster.Single professionals, in particular, may find it harder to meet their own nutritional needs through grocery shopping or cooking than their married counterparts. That's because many working individuals who live alone rarely place healthy eating high on their priority lists, especially when time is limited and there's no one else to consider their nutritional welfare at home or help in preparing meals.Many times eating habits will narrow down to fast food, chronic snacking, or skipping meals altogether. But since scientific research continues to prove how an increasing number of illnesses can be prevented by following healthier eating styles, it's important to know how to incorporate them into the time-crunched daily agendas of single professionals.According to the U.S.... | |
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| | | Long list of recalls is causing terror at the table | | Posted Monday, October 30, 2006 1:05:46 PM by Blog57 Team | | Forget the Food Pyramid, the U.S. Department of Agriculture's guidelines for a healthy diet. Today, a terrifying roster of impurities - E. coli! salmonella! listeria monocytogenes! - is decimating everything from our salads to our sandwiches. Now that a bowl of spring vegetables could lead to an autumn of intestinal distress, you're probably not calculating how many servings of leafy greens to incorporate into your meals. Instead, you probably want to know what not to eat. Here, then, is a list of foods that have been quarantined or recalled in recent months. These desperate gastronomic times call for desperate nutritional measures. They call for the Food Pyramid of Terror. GRAINS Avoid: Long-grain rice Why: Contains traces of genetically modified strains not approved for human consumption.... | |
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| | | Guidelines coming for physical exercise; goal is to promote healthier lifestyles | | Posted Monday, October 30, 2006 7:04:54 AM by Blog57 Team | | WASHINGTON There's a food pyramid to help guide people's eating habits, so why not one for exercise? The Bush administration said Thursday it would develop guidelines for physical activity. When the guidelines are ready in late 2008, federal health officials hope they will help people live healthier lifestyles, which in turn, could slow soaring health care costs. "Obesity is an epidemic, and chronic disease inevitably follows. It has become a major quiet killer," said Mike Leavitt, the health and human services secretary. More than half of adults in the United States do not get enough of the kind of physical activity that actually benefits them. One-quarter are not active at all in their leisure time. Overall, more than 60 million adults are obese, Leavitt said. The lack of exercise contributes to the $2 trillion that people spend on health care in this country, Leavitt said.... | |
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| | | U.S. exercise guidelines coming in 2008 | | Posted Friday, October 27, 2006 2:56:00 AM by Blog57 Team | | WASHINGTON (AP) -- There's a food pyramid to help guide people's eating habits, so why not one for exercise? The Bush administration said Thursday that it would develop guidelines for physical activity. When the guidelines are ready in late 2008, federal health officials hope they will help people live healthier lifestyles, which in turn, could slow soaring health care costs. "Obesity is an epidemic, and chronic disease inevitably follows. It has become a major quiet killer," said Mike Leavitt, the health and human services secretary. More than half of adults in the United States do not get enough of the kind of physical activity that actually benefits them. One-quarter are not active at all in their leisure time. Overall, more than 60 million adults are obese, Leavitt said.... | |
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