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 ...

Arriving in the midst of an obesity epidemic, a new at-a-glance government guide to healthful eating is meant to remind consumers to limit heavy foods and beef up on the greens.

While no one is blaming the food pyramid for the rise in obesity rates, it has taken some criticism over the years. The pyramid, unveiled in 1992, showed a hierarchy of foods.

The federal government unveiled its new food icon, MyPlate, to serve as a reminder to help consumers make healthier food choices on June 2, 2011.

The nearly 20-year-old food pyramid will soon give way to a new symbol. ... Speculation is that dinner plate will take over for decades-old pyramid. By ABC News. May 31, 2011, 3:16 PM.

The federal government unveiled its new food icon, MyPlate, to serve as a reminder to help consumers make healthier food choices on June 2, 2011.

PITTSBURGH (KDKA) -- Remember the food pyramid? Well, it's history. Welcome "the plate." The First Lady, Surgeon General and the Agriculture Secretary unveiled the government's new tool to help ...

My issue with the plate chart is that it does not offer a prescribed eating regimen. It merely has four nearly equal allocations of food groups on a colorful plate and dairy cast off to the side.

PICTURES - Bye-bye pyramid, hello plate: Timeline of food guidelines. The food pyramid has been around since 1992, but nutrition experts don't seem to be mourning its demise.

In one of those "if a tree falls in a forest" moments, the U.S. Department of Agriculture last week replaced its much-criticized and widely ignored "food pyramid" with a "food ...

WASHINGTON — The Agriculture Department says “My Plate,” its new healthy eating symbol, aims to show that nutrition doesn’t have to be complicated. “My Plate” — a simp… ...