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.

Farewell, food pyramid — USDA is now serving up nutritional advice on My Plate. By Amina Khan, Los Angeles Times / for the Booster Shots blog . June 2, 2011 11:42 AM PT .

USDA ditches food pyramid for new design istockphoto (CBS) After almost two decades, the USDA food pyramid is history. First Lady Michelle Obama today unveiled the USDA's update on America's ...

After years of insisting that everyone should eat the same foods — six to 11 servings of grain a day, three to five servings of vegetables — the people who set the nation's nutritional ...

After decades of the food pyramid, Americans can look to a new model for healthy eating, ‘MyPlate’, the new symbol of proper nutrition from the USDA which was announced Thursday.

And now the USDA is razing the food pyramid to make way for a new visual model intended to help Americans figure out how to plan a balanced diet. Set to be unveiled on June 2, the new graphic will ...

USDA food pyramid unveiled in SpanishHealth officials hope it will help lower obesity rate among Hispanics. By Staff And Wire Reports Dec 8, 2005.

Remember that food pyramid you grew up on via the U.S. Dietary ... and prevent disease," the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) explains. The organization noted, it's specifically ...

As a result, we get the off-kilter food pyramid that everyone knows and hates ... arm of the industrial-food marketing machine. The USDA’s primary role as promoter of American agricultural ...

PHILADELPHIA — The new food pyramid made its public debut today, keeping its recognizable shape but getting an extreme makeover that splashes it with a rainbow of colors and includes a runner ...