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A Food Pyramid for Children

Food pyramids are a good tool to use when feeding children and teaching them about nutrition as a visual guide to the amounts and ratios of foods they are eating is...

A Food Pyramid for Optimim Health

While it’s long been known that a balanced combination of foods from all the basic food groups included in the food pyramid will help produce a fitter body and a...

Adolescence and the Food Pyramid

Why Do Young People Have Food Issues? It’s interesting to note that until the 1940s in many parts of the West, children didn’t eat with their parents until they...

An Introduction to the Food Pyramid

The food pyramid is a simple, visual way of ensuring you and your family get the best nutrition on a daily basis. As the pyramid is a picture, rather than text, it is...

Detox and Food Pyramid

The classic reason for a detoxification diet was always an impaired or poorly functioning liver. Doctors often prescribed a detox to their patients if they felt the...

Food Labelling and Additives

What Are Food Additives? An additive is defined as anything added to food to preserve its flavour or improve its taste and appearance, or enhance its keeping...

Food Pyramid 2005: the Rainbow Pyramid

The 2005 food pyramid released by the United States Government was designed to include the exercise component which had been left out of the...

Food Pyramid and Dining Out

Dining Out – A Treat Or A Diet Breaking Occasion? A meal out with family or friends should be a happy time, but if you are on a diet, or trying to eat healthily,...

Food Pyramid and Food Safety

If you’ve decided that it’s time for you to focus on more nutritious eating, there’s a very important stage that you mustn’t miss out on. And it’s understanding how...

Food Pyramid and Ramadan

For many cultures there are religious and spiritual fasts that contribute to the life of the community but sometimes feel quite difficult to fit into the business or...

Food Pyramid for Breastfeeding Mothers

Giving birth is one of the greatest experiences of a woman’s life, and being able to breastfeed is a great accomplishment for her, and a support...

Food Pyramid for Children Who Are Picky Eaters

Does your child resist your best efforts by refusing any novel food you put in front of them? Here are some ideas that will help you...

Food Pyramid for Older People

Does Age Affect The Way We Eat? Ageing has a profound effect on the way we eat, and because this has only recently been recognised, a lot of research is...

Food Pyramid for Perfect Skin

Perfect skin is a grail – something that just about everybody wishes for, even if they never achieve it. But moving towards skin perfection is easier if we think of...

Food Pyramid Menu Planning

Each new Food Pyramid offers some changes and they can make the average cook feel that no sooner have they mastered one system, than a new one appears to confuse...

Food Pyramid New Year's Resolutions

People have more success with changing their food habits if they make small changes in a sequential pattern. For example, if you want to eat less sugary foods, begin...

Food Pyramid Proportions Quiz

The Food Pyramid is designed to help us understand two things: The types of food we should eat to be healthy /li> The proportions in which we should...

Food Pyramid Updates in 2010

Since it was first introduced in America, over a decade ago, the food pyramid has been a simple, visual tool to help everybody eat better. But diets and family...

Healthy Food Pyramid for Babies and Toddlers

Every parent wants to give their child the best start in life, and increasingly, infant nutrition is being seen as a key factor in a child’s...

Keeping a Food Pyramid Journal

Why Keep A Food Journal? A food journal is useful for many reasons. It makes you aware of your bad eating habits and reminds you of your good ones and it helps...

Motivation Tools for Healthy Eating

There are times when we all need motivation to eat healthily. Here are some ways to keep your motivation high whatever your circumstances. Family M...

Questionnaire: Are You a Food Pyramid Pharoah?

The basic Food Pyramid principles are easy to learn, but to be a Food Pyramid Pharaoh you need to have fully mastered the underlying ideas that...

Teaching Children to Cook Healthily

Why Teach Your Child To Cook Learning to cook helps children to understand nutrition and healthy eating in a practical way. While such lessons are taught in...

The UK Food Pyramid: the Eatwell Plate

What Is The Eatwell Plate? The Food Standards Agency in the UK created the eatwell plate to serve as a simple pictorial guide to healthy...

Traffic Light Food Labelling

Traffic light labelling is a controversial tool, developed in the UK to help consumers see the healthy and unhealthy components of the food they buy. How...