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What are the national dietary guidelines

January 21, 2012 By Vitality Market

The healthy eating pyramid is a guideline for people to follow and understand how to develop healthy eating habits. The new food pyramid is designed vertically instead of horizontally and color-coded. Each color represents a different food group – grains, vegetables, fruits, fats and oils, milk and dairy and meat, beans, fish and nuts. The [...]

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The healthy eating pyramid

January 20, 2012 By Vitality Market

In 2005 the U.S. Government retired the Food Pyramid for the current MyPyramid. This pyramid contains no words and is only a graphic representation of what the guidelines might be with each color representing different food groups. In response to MyPyramid faculty members at the Harvard School of Public Health designed the Healthy Eating Pyramid. [...]

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Teaching college students healthy eating

January 18, 2012 By Vitality Market

Teaching college students healthy eating habits actually starts at home before the student leaves for college. Most students, and adults, learn best from role models. People learn and model the actions of the people they admire and are friends with. College students are no different. If they come from families with healthy eating habits, then [...]