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.

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 ...

The icon replaces the 1992 Food Guide Pyramid, according to the USDA. Under the USDA guidelines, a moderately active woman, age 31-50, should eat three cups of veggies every day and two cups of fruit.

The government yesterday unveiled the first "food pyramid" specifically aimed at children 6 to 11 years old, hoping that sound dietary advice combined with an interactive online game featuring a ...

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 ...

USDA unveils the new food icon, MyPlate, to replace the food pyramid that served as the standard for dietary guidelines for nearly 20 years. Move over food pyramid. Make way for the plate.

USDA released a food guide Pyramid in 1991, withdrew it under protest from meat producers, and re-released it a year later. Meat and dairy producers did not like being at the "eat less" top of ...

Federal officials are replacing the food pyramid with a full plate — and while experts say that the new approach is an imperfect solution, it’s a vast improvement on the much-maligned My ...

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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 ... The USDA revised the pyramid in 2005.

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 ...