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Food Pyramid and Athletes: Some Guidance
A Food Pyramid For Athletic Performance
Many athletes have very different dietary needs to those of the general public. It recently became...
Food Pyramid and Nut Allergies
The USDA food pyramid is designed to offer the best possible nutritional advice to the average American (and by extension, the average western person) but it doesn’t...
Food Pyramid and School Dinners: Government Guidelines
The food pyramid aims to help us all improve our diets and live a healthier, longer, life. But for parents and children, the process of choosing...
Food Pyramid for Active People
The Food Standards Agency was set up by Parliament in 2000 – its job is to protect the public's health and promote consumer interests. It has recently undertaken a...
Food Pyramid for Conception
The Food Pyramid is a very good guide, for most women, to the kind of diet that they should be eating to encourage regular and healthy ovulation, which is the...
Food Pyramid for Examination Success
When the examination season looms, kids can go off the rails in all kinds of ways, but the traditional diet of fizzy drinks, chocolate bars and pizza may not deliver...
Food Pyramid for Expectant Mothers
Eating Well Through Pregnancy
It’s important that you check with your GP or health visitor to be sure you are gaining weight appropriately and getting the right...
Food Pyramid for Prader-willi Syndrome
What Is Prader-Willi Syndrome?
Prader-Willi Syndrome, known as PWS, is a relatively rare genetic condition that results from the disruption...
Food Pyramid for Type 2 Diabetes
Type 2 diabetes is a permanent condition once it develops. The primary symptom is high levels of sugar in the blood – this happens when the body does not respond...
Food Pyramid for Vegans
What Is A Vegan Diet?
Vegans eat only plant foods – they do not consume meat, poultry, fish, any dairy foods, eggs, or even honey. For many poor societies, a...
Food Pyramid for Vegetarians
Most people agree there are different forms of vegetarianism: lacto-ovo vegetarians who exclude meat, poultry and fish, and lacto-vegetarians who don’t eat meat,...
Food Pyramid for Weight Gain
Most people wish to lose weight, but for a percentage of the population, gaining weight can be important. If you’ve been ill, or have a medical condition that makes...
Food Pyramid for Youthful Skin
The food pyramid is a good general tool to help you improve your diet, and a better diet naturally improves skin and hair condition, but if you want to do that bit...
Food Pyramid Ideas for Raw Foodists
What Is A Raw Food Diet?
Raw food diet consumers, who may be known as raw foodists or rawists, eat a diet in which all, or the greatest percentage of the diet...
Food Pyramid Tips for Optimum Healthy Pre and Post Surgery
Surgery is often a frightening experience, even when it’s elective or we’ve been given plenty of time to prepare for it. We tend to focus on what...
Food Pyramid to Boost Your Immune System
A strong immune system adapts quickly to new evidence of illness and disease, especially when travelling to a new climate or when the seasons...
Gluten-free Food Pyramid
What Is Gluten Intolerance?
Gluten is a protein that is present in many, but not all, cereals. In the West we tend to think of wheat as the primary or only...
Macrobiotic Food Pyramid
What Is A Macrobiotic Diet?
The word macrobiotic comes from two Greek words which combine to mean ‘long life’ The diet and its underlying philosophy were...
News: The Vegan Power Plate Replaces Food Pyramid
The Physicians’ Committee for Responsible Medicine (PCRM) is an organisation that includes doctors and dieticians who are focused on offering...
