Tomsaaristo posted the revised food pyramid by Harvard University. Here’s my comments:
It’s much better than the new one. However, it’s kinda odd how you have alcohol and vitamins floating outside the pyramid. I can see content-wise that it’s nice to include them. Visually, it’s just weird. With a 3-d pyramid we look at the diagram as being three-dimensional space. So these flat 2-d diagrams floating outside the pyramid looks like they are floating ghosts. Ooooo the floating ghost of alcohol past! Oh it’s the ghost of vitamin future!
And in a more serious note, the exercise bar at the bottom is nice. However it doesn’t seem to be all that important because it’s so skinny. It looks like the other food groups are so heavy, they are squashing the crap outta the exercise layer. Let’s give the exercise layer a nice thicker bar. Let it visually show how exercise is really a good foundation.
It’s also rather funny that the apex of the pyramid points to the word “eating” in “Healthy Eating Pyramid.” Eat! Eat! and Eat summore!
I don’t know if you saw it, but I gave you big props on my blog [in the comments section”> for these remarks. Just great!!
I was looking for a good way to teach a family about healthy eating and I agree with this pyramids message much more then mypyramid. My biggest concern is that the vegetables are getting the same amount of space as the plant oils. It makes it seem like adding lots of oil to your diet is a good idea.